Word: inspects
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even before the panel arrived to inspect Fort Leonard Wood last September, the Army had tried to control the raging hormones of the teenagers it recruited into basic training. Male and female recruits were moved into adjoining rooms housing up to eight soldiers, all the same sex. The Army also removed all of the bedroom doors to allow sergeants to monitor activities more closely. But with the recruits' doors gone, lights-out in barracks also meant lights-out in the halls if the recruits were to get any sleep. The increased darkness, however, only allowed for more sexual misbehavior...
...until just before the Christmas break that Henry Fassbender, shaper of ninth-grade minds at P.S. 117 in Huntington, Ind., finally found a moment to inspect the Amistad learning kit for himself. It had been sent to the school by overnight mail from DreamWorks, and the whole history department was aflutter. The graphics were compelling, the subject matter gripping, but as Henry sat in the faculty lounge carefully perusing the glossy pages, his heart began to sink. He could see his upcoming vacation unraveling with every page--victim to the unbearable lightness of a Hollywood learning...
...Butler will report to the Security Council on Thursday that Baghdad refuses to back down and allow the U.N. team to inspect presidential sites. That will leave the Security Council to decide what to do next. Says Dowell: ?It?s hard to see what more anyone can do short of military action. But there?s considerable feeling against any military action in the Gulf, and without the support of allies in the Arab world and the Gulf, it?s hard to imagine the U.S. launching an attack...
Over the upcoming winter holidays, house superintendents, dorm crew workers and other administrators will inspect all student rooms, looking for illegal appliances, blocked fire doors, illegal adhesive use and general room damage...
...look for things," Bray said. "We have 1660 rooms to inspect, and we're not going to spend all winter looking...