Word: thorough
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...kept from enrolling in my course at this particular time. In a long, thorough, and at times painful discussion, it was agreed that all the students then in the room (nine women and three men) could not fruitfully participate in a single seminar, structured in a discussion format, because of the great range of preparation, experience and expectations. We therefore had to decide which of two possible courses we were going to have: one that was elementary, descriptive and historical, or a more advanced and theoretical course. It was apparent that the three men in the room lacked the basic...
...trouble was not so much that the candidates used facts and figures, but that they used too many for quick understanding and yet not enough for really thorough exposition. Besides, they tended to talk past each other, with the arguments only rarely meshing...
...bloody murder of Orlando Letelier and Ronnie Karpen Moffitt, it is imperative and legitimate that the U.S. government totally sever all diplomatic and political relations with the Chilean junta; stop all U.S., World Bank and all other international forms of aid to the junta; and conduct an independent and thorough investigation by Congress--not the FBI--into the assassination itself and into the links between DINA and U.S. intelligence organizations...
...about the move, a friend of his has recently purchased a home with 50.7 acres of land for $150,000 and acquired a town permit authorizing $250,000 in renovations. Solzhenitsyn, who listed Cavendish as his next residence with the U.S. Immigration Service, seems to have made a thorough adjustment to the ways of Western capitalism. Besides a chain-link fence topped with barbed wire, his new digs will include a guest house and tennis court...
Helmholz prepares for his singe jobs like a surgeon before an operation. Each customer gets a thorough workup, with the results-tensile strength, absorption factor and elasticity of hair-printed on special reference cards. Says Helmholz: "We leave nothing to chance." Then the hair is washed and scissor-trimmed by aides, after which Helmholz himself arrives, torch in hand. Moving it from right to left across the customer's head, using a comb as a baffle, he burns off a few strands at a time, starting at the front of the crown and working down to the earlobes...