Word: thorough
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...government assistance." Only five months out of law school (New York University, class of '68), Pollack filed 26 suits in a single day against foot dragging on food programs by 26 states and the Agriculture Department. "I was arrogant," he now concedes. But, proceeding with careful research and thorough preparation, he won 25 of the 26. These legal triumphs helped him get a $250,000 federal grant in 1970 to start FRAC, which is now supported by a host of religious and foundation sources. Pollack's work has won him respect from supporters and opponents alike. Justice Department...
...security. On the ground, El Al is more demanding than most airlines in screening passengers for the traits and psychological characteristics -nervousness, one-way tickets-that fit the skyjacker's "profile." Doubtful passengers are refused tickets. Those boarding El Al planes can be subjected to the most thorough baggage and body searches in the industry. Far from resenting such searches, report airline officials, most passengers are happy to undergo them for the sake of security...
...City of the Dead could be simply taken as a story of municipal corruption, numbingly thorough detective work and a father's anguished attempt to rescue his daughter from some kidnapers, it would make a diverting, if overlong read. But despite the novel's remarkable skill and intensity, it cannot be so taken. What separates Lieberman's book from the general run of hard-boiled adventure fiction is its encyclopedic attention to the subject of human corpses...
...change their plans. So did teachers and school administrators involved in scheduling for next fall. In an unprecedented move, the New Jersey Supreme Court at 12:01 a.m. on July 1 shut down the state's entire public school system. Reason: the state was not providing "thorough and efficient" education for all New Jersey children, as it was required to do by its constitution...
...filed in Jersey City in 1970 on behalf of Kenneth Robinson, 7. Like many other states, New Jersey has financed its schools largely by local property taxes. Young Robinson's lawyer argued that this system resulted in wide variations of expenditures and thus violated the constitution's "thorough and efficient" clause. In 1973 the state supreme court agreed with Robinson and charged the legislature to find other ways of financing the schools...