Word: inspectorate
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...country estates of rural England have long proved happy hunting grounds for Britain's fictional sleuths. Holmes, Poirot, Inspector Morse: all have tackled intricate and ingenious plots in the creaky corridors and labyrinthine gardens of the manor house. But when constables from the West Mercia Police force responded to a fire at the $2.4 million Osbaston property in Maesbrook in the west of the country last week, they uncovered murders that have so far proved more bafflingly chaotic than subtle or cunning...
...Mirren, who starred in the television police drama Prime Suspect as Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison, said that a rape would occur if a woman, voluntarily engaging in sexual activity, said "no" at the last moment. But, she added, "I don't think she can have a man into court under those circumstances...
...York City restaurants and pushed national chains to divulge fat and calorie content on their menus is agitating for more change. The Washington-based Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) is now calling for easy public access to restaurant health-code grades, improved health-inspector training and a nationwide standard for restaurant inspections...
...unclear whether cities with more violations simply had dirtier kitchens or more dogged restaurant inspectors. New York City, Milwaukee, Austin and Atlanta had the better inspector-to-restaurant ratios, where inspectors covered fewer than 200 restaurants each. Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Chicago had the highest ratios, with each inspector responsible for evaluating 400 to 500 restaurants. In some cities, however, inspectors appeared to work overtime: Colorado Springs, which employs just eight food inspectors for about 2,000 restaurants, reported the third highest number of violations in the study, at 46; most cited unclean food surfaces, as well as food being inadequately...
...over Petrella's acts as a member of the extreme-left Red Brigades, which battled Italian governments in the 1970s and 1980s in a campaign of assassination, kidnapping, and terror. In 1992 a Rome court convicted Petrella in absentia for her role in the 1981 murder of a police inspector and the kidnapping of a judge. The following year, Petrella fled to France and an open-ended deal proposed in 1985 by French President François Mitterrand: amnesty for Red Brigades members who gave up their battle in Italy to lead law-abiding lives in France...