Word: probed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Official response to the protests has been carefully noncommital. While an official probe into the activities of the institute's think tank is unlikely, a "study" of the relationship of the Institute and the university is a possibility, William Kimball, Chairman of the university's Board of Trustees, said in the Stanford Daily last week...
...second EPA report summarized a probe of the work of a private testing firm responsible for evaluating the health and safety hazards of some 212 chemicals, primarily pesticides and herbicides, during the '70s. The study concluded that there had been a pattern of sloppy and fraudulent testing procedures by the firm, Industrial Bio-Test Laboratories, of Northbrook...
...American astronomers, who are still deeply disappointed by the failure of the U.S. to send off a probe to intercept the most famous comet of all, Halley's, when it returns in 1986, IRAS-Araki-Alcock was a gift from heaven. At close encounter, it appeared as a blurry patch, about three times the diameter of the full moon, near the bowl of the Big Dipper...
...crux of the military self-justification was its claim that security officials had a mandate to "annihilate subversive elements." The point is crucial to the many unrepentant officers, who fear a civilian probe and possible prosecution after the scheduled October elections. To stave off this prospect, the report flatly stated, the military would submit to no further questioning. Ominously, the military also warned that having once saved the nation from terror, it would not hesitate to "do so again...