Word: inspects
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...result of the scare, the U.S. Postal Service has halted all mail processed in Northern California -- believed to be the Unabomber's base of operations -- as scores of postal inspectors check as many packages as possible. "After the last bombing, they said it was impossible to inspect all the mail," says TIME San Franciso reporter Jeff Green. "But this latest threat has raised the stakes, so they're making the best effort they...
...addition to the handbook reads, "Information that the owner would reasonably regard as private must be treated as private by other users....That measures have not been taken to protect such information does not make it permissible for others to inspect...
Soon thereafter, Levi Lyman, alias Dr. Griffin, checked into a hotel in Philadelphia on Barnum's payroll. After a few days he invited his landlord to inspect the mermaid. The landlord, greatly excited, urged the British doctor to let a few of his friends, including several reporters, have a look at it. And, as Barnum smugly notes in his autobiography, everyone was convinced that it was a genuine article, "nor is this to be wondered at, since, if it was a work of art, the monkey and fish were so nicely conjoined that no human eye could detect the point...
MARIA SPERANSKAYA gives a bleak recitation of war's reality. She is 86, a retired doctor in Nizhni Novgorod who served as a combat surgeon through the worst of the war. One of her duties was to inspect trainloads of newly arrived wounded. She decided which of them should be treated and which were so badly off that they must be left to die. "I was known," she says, "for my precision...
...Dole would introduce a bill that combines tougher penalties for terrorist acts in the United States with thepresident's proposals. Clinton said he would create an FBI-run center fordomestic counterterrorism. He also requested far more authority for federal agents to wiretap, trace phone calls, examine phone bills and inspect other consumer records in efforts to identify terrorist cells before they commit crimes...