Word: thorough
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...drive for a thorough compliance scrutiny, the task force on Monday submitted to Bynoe, the head of HEW's Office of Civil Rights (OCR), a 20-page analysis of alleged University-wide non-compliance with guidelines set out in the 1975 Harvard Affirmative Action Plan...
...body gestures. Rostropovich and Seiji Ozawa seem almost to dance together, even when they lose eye contact. If Rostropovich has a comment to make to the orchestra--and he knows every instrument's part--he demonstrates what it should sound like on his cello. Rostropovich is a thorough musician, and when he plays or rehearses with an orchestra, he takes charge...
...Jerry Brown, Hernandez declared that sac rifice rather than new miracles is on tomorrow's agenda. He said that his own government "overspends, is highly inefficient, unresponsive to the calls and needs of the people and is all but impossible to control and direct." He promised a thorough over haul of both the bureaucracy and the island's weak education system...
...much of Wriston's wit seems funny in print: the effect of his remarks depends heavily on the arched eyebrow and quizzical expression accompanying them-and on a thorough knowledge of the context. Discussing the Penn Central's default on bank loans, he once quipped that the railroad's management "couldn't be equated with Boy Scouts"-a crack that can be fully appreciated only by someone who knows that the line's officers and directors agreed to an out-of-court settlement on shareholders' charges of fiscal mismanagement. Faced once by contradictory accusations...
Died. John Martin Murtagh, 64, New York State Supreme Court Justice who was preparing his ruling on whether the state's special prosecutor, Maurice Nadjari, had the authority to investigate the New York Democratic Party chairman Patrick Cunningham; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. A tireless, methodical, thorough worker, Democrat Murtagh presided over Republican Nadjari's corruption cases for three years and repeatedly clashed with the prosecutor, whose slashing, unorthodox tactics caused Murtagh to throw out a number of pre-jury indictments...