Word: inspectors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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David A. Haley, the commissioner of the Department of Public Works, said that although no one had officially complained about a sewage problem, he had sent an inspector to the river in response to a reporter's inquiry...
...blatant. A Jordanian customs official is bribed, illegal cargo is substituted for food and medicine, a false manifest is prepared, and the truck heads for the Iraqi border. At the Jordanian customs post, the truck, sealed with a lock and a bit of wire, is not examined, the customs inspector stamps the false manifest, and the driver heads for Baghdad. Boasts police major Ahmed Omari as he waves through a van of vegetable oil: "Not a single truck has carried smuggled goods into Iraq." But thanks to Iraqi payoffs lavished on Jordanian government officials, thousands of tons of U.N.-embargoed...
...Pivotal character is Inspector Truscott of Scotland Yard (Patrick Harlan), who invades the McLeavy house posing a an inspector from the Water Board . He is a typical Orton authority figure: corrupt and megalomaniacal, he has an insanely logical explanation for all his abuses of power...
...decision to change the system was prompted by a postal inspection two years ago, Carbonneau said. "A postal services inspector realized that we were not supposed to be doing what we were doing," he said...
Because Cohen and his employees are so familiar with the ins and outs of condoms, they give new products the "Inspector No. 12" treatment putting the condoms over their fists and examining" the thicknesses...