Word: thorough
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Rhodes scholars, although, Price says, the chairman never is. Some committees have included women in the past, and Price says he expects many of them will approach more this year in preparation for women applicants. The interviews--which are all done in the same day--are long and very thorough. Rice says he finds that day "the most stimulating one of the year," because it offers him a chance to learn not only about the concerns of the graduating classes but also about the subjects in which the applicants are interested. That afternoon, the candidates sit outside the interviewing room...
...thorough is Lewis' dedication to Western fiction that he leaves the family farm in Iowa to enroll in a Nevada college that promises to put the finishing touches on his art. Instead, the college puts them to Lewis. The entire faculty consists of two con men in the back room of a fleabag hotel, bilking suckers by mail. Fleeing this harsh reality, Lew is also accidently makes off with a strongbox full of several thousand dollars worth of tuition money bamboozled from the suckers of the nation's heartland. Wandering in the desert, lugging the strongbox, Lewis...
...best official report to date on the CIA-more thorough and fair than the Rockefeller study, in the view of impartial intelligence experts-was produced by former Under Secretary of State Murphy's Commission on the Organization of the Government for Conduct of Foreign Policy. The report concluded: "Covert action cannot be abandoned, but it should be employed only where clearly essential to vital U.S. purposes and then only after a careful process of high-level review." The CIA is still the most appropriate Government agency to carry out that difficult, often unpleasant but inevitable mission...
...thorough reevaluation--accepting no premises without thought," Ralph Gants '76, a student member of the concentrations task force, says. To date the group has considered three topics of discussion: a reevaluation of the restricted majors, to see if their elitist rationale can be defended; discussion of whether non-honors concentrations should be offered at all; and an analysis of the tutorial system. Paul C. Martin, professor of Physics and chairman of this task force, stresses that the group must first "grope with the logic of the existence of concentrations." One member can only remark--"Whether it's just fine-tuning...
...when the department meets to consider nominating someone for a permanent appointment, the discussions must be thorough, because, as Mansfield said, "once a professor is accepted, he becomes infinitely wise and it is no longer possible to raise the questions that were raised when he was discussed...