Word: inspector
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...commission's review. A Department of the Interior investigation in June 2001 showed that there were 332 Indian gaming operations, from firehouse bingo games to full-scale casinos, but that only 31 were operating under management contracts approved by the NIGC. As the department's Office of the Inspector General later concluded, "Almost all tribes are utilizing consulting agreements to circumvent the regulatory and enforcement authority vested in the National Indian Gaming Commission...
...around $70,000 to $80,000 a year, tax free, depending on experience. But the hours are long. If one is to judge by the past inspection campaign in Iraq, from 1991 to 1998, inspectors won't get many breaks during their one-to four-month stints in the field. Plus, it's stressful work. Says Nikita Smidovich, UNMOVIC's training chief: "We tell our inspectors that their job is to collect data, period." But the team members know that peace is at stake. Says Jacques Baute, a French former physics professor and weapons expert who is now the chief...
...take photos of themselves, but really taking photos of the Lamont Library’s bookbag checker with an extremely powerful telephoto lens. The idea was to fill a bookbag to the brim with photos of the person who inspects bags at Lamont. Upon searching for stolen books, said inspector would find only unauthorized self-portraits, dozens and dozens of them. This of course, would blow his freakin’ mind! And FM’s merry pranksters would be laughing all the way to the comedy bank...
...entire inspections exercise from 1991 to 1998 allowed Baghdad to perfect ways to thwart the hunters. "We taught them what we could find," says David Kay, a former nuclear inspector, "and they learned how to conceal a program that is going to be a lot smaller but a lot harder" to find now. One example, from the 1999 U.N. report: in 1991, a major in Iraq's Special Republican Guard, Izzadine al-Majid, was ordered to take critical components from Iraq's missile program and hide them at a villa. After nine months, the materials were moved by the Special...
...inspectors who are scheduled to begin arriving in Iraq this week will have some weapons of their own. They wield more advanced equipment, better intelligence and an all-access mandate to search sites previously kept off limits--not to mention a credible threat of military retaliation if Iraq fails to comply. Even as the inspectors have upgraded their technology and know-how, of course, Saddam has spent the past four years conjuring new ways of keeping his most prized weapons out of reach. "The case of Iraq has stimulated all these new [inspection] techniques," chief weapons inspector Hans Blix...