Word: inspectorate
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...previous translation seems to lead our understanding of the work in a specific direction, whereas the new edition leaves the theme more open to interpretation. K. is arrested in his room. The inspector he meets refuses to tell him of what he has been convicted, insisting that he lacks this knowledge. Throughout the novel, K. is continually denied the right to know what it is that he stands accused of. He is first informed that he has been arrested and later called to court for various proceedings relating to his trial. He takes on a lawyer and encounters numerous individuals...
Robert Bracey, a Cambridge city health inspector, said that under city law the Health Department had to be notified of any such leak immediately--but wasn...
Oliva's tale will put a human face on a damning study by the General Accounting Office that will be the subject of hearings by the Committee on Aging this week. The panel has summoned two insiders--a former California nursing-home nurse and a current nursing-home inspector for the state--to offer firsthand accounts of the horrors. The women--called "Clara B." and "Florence N." by the committee--will speak from behind a screen to shield them from retaliation by the powerful nursing-home industry and the agency that provides care to California's elderly...
...they didn't eat fast enough, the food got taken from them," the former nursing-home employee told TIME. She says she would falsify records to show that the residents had eaten everything on their plate. Things would improve for a while when state inspectors showed up for their predictably timed annual visit. "The attitude was to put a Band-Aid on it until the state left, and then it'd go right back to the way it was," she says. The inspector, who has been visiting California nursing homes for years, told TIME her complaints are regularly ignored because...
...core of The Simpsons, which was created by newspaper cartoonist Matt Groening as crudely drawn filler material for the Tracey Ullman Show in 1987, then went weekly in 1990. A Honeymooners with kids, the series features a man in a deadening blue-collar job (Homer, the nuclear-plant safety inspector), his epochally exasperated wife (Marge of the mountainous blue hair) and three conflicted kids. Bart, 10, is clever and cunning but addled in class; Lisa, 8, is a near genius whose intelligence deprives her of friends; year-old Maggie expresses frazzled wisdom beyond her years with the merest suck...