Word: thorough
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...impact statement is not an adequate or accurate study of the plant and its potential environmental dangers. The Boston Redevelopment Authority which has final say on whether the plant be built should commission another study, this time with a more thorough examination of plant alternatives and proper Mission Hill community input. If this input, easily obtained by talking to the Mission Hill Planning Commission, which represents the whole region, had previously been utilized, the environmental study may have reached a different conclusion regarding the plant's feasibility...
...were obviously relieved by the failure of Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's bilateral shuttle negotiations. As an alternative, the Russians have demanded "an early resumption" of the Geneva Conference, but as of last week it appeared that they were having second thoughts about reconvening the talks without thorough preparation. As one Western diplomat in Moscow put it, the Soviets were having trouble getting "all their Arabs lined up in a row." Last week Pravda, with some irritation, observed that "success at Geneva would be facilitated by a common Arab position on the Palestinian issue...
...merged admissions office; men and women in equal positions on the admissions committee; improvement of the Quadrangle housing facilities; no substantial increase in the size of the undergraduate student body at this time; the setting up of a standing committee on admissions and financial aid; and a thorough review of equal access after three years...
...nurse administered a thorough review of my medical history before allowing me to give blood. She asked about everything from obscure childhood illnesses to what I had for breakfast that morning. This interrogation induced a temporary hypochondria forcing me to remember anything in my past that might compromise my ability to give blood. "What if I don't have enough?" I thought. The speed of the process left me no more time for injurious self-contemplation...
Ford's survey of the rest of the world was disappointing in its predictableness, and was delivered in a manner that at times suggested he did not have a firm grasp of what he was talking about. Instead of a thorough reassessment of U.S. foreign policy, which he had promised, Ford pretty much reaffirmed long-held U.S. positions. As expected, he declared that the U.S.'s difficulties in Indochina did not mean that the U.S. had been rendered impotent elsewhere. "Let no potential adversary believe that our difficulties or our debates mean a slackening of our national will," he warned...