Word: recommendations
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...first assignment at the Kennedy School was the most practical thing I learned in the two years," he says. "We had to write a two-page memo on a policy issue and recommend a course of action. More than anything else, I continue to use that skill...
...Orleans was outraged by the brutality of the murder, and at a trial in October 1982 a New Orleans jury needed less than three hours to recommend a death sentence against Rault. "Crimes don't come any more hideous," said the prosecutor, David Paddison. "The death penalty was eminently justified...
Should researchers pinpoint that genetic defect, the next step will be to develop a simple diagnostic test. Doctors now recommend that everyone over 50 periodically undergo routine, if unpleasant, examinations with a proctosigmoidoscope, a hollow, lighted tube that is inserted in the colon to look for signs of cancer. A blood test that could alert people that they carried a greater risk of developing colorectal cancer might motivate them to seek frequent checkups...
...dollar, which had spent much of the past two years in a free fall, seemed to be holding its own. After hearings that Wisconsin Democrat William Proxmire described as a "love feast," the 20 members of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee voted unanimously to recommend Greenspan's confirmation. The full Senate is expected to approve the nomination before Volcker completes his term this week. Even Proxmire, who voiced philosophical differences with Greenspan, concluded, "I think you are a remarkable...
...with a sense of utter outrage that I read about the recommendations of some ecologists that the hunting of leopards and an international trade in leopard skins be resumed ((ENVIRONMENT, July 20)). The only large animal that is not on an endangered list, to judge by its numbers, is the human being. However, I would not on that account recommend that it be hunted...