Word: thorough
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...male and female, is given extensive training in the field of his or her specialty. This training ranges from the simple (a six-week clerical course, for example) to the complex (training in medical technology that takes almost a year). Whatever training Sgt. Bronwen had received had obviously been thorough and complete. She knew the key phrase for dealings with the press and she knew when to use it: "Miss Bennett, do you mind if I sit in on this interview...
...less urgent. It strengthens those members of Congress who argue that decent leadership, rather than new laws, will best preclude more Watergates. Indeed, as Nixon and many of his men have ruefully discovered, there are many adequate laws that can be applied to specific Watergate transgressions. Yet, after its thorough study of the scandal, the Senate Watergate committee suggested no fewer than 35 reforms, most of which would require congressional action. Explains Connecticut Republican Lowell P. Weicker Jr., one of that committee's most reform-minded members: "Ford is a fine man and I don't doubt...
Never Asked. The Boyle/Kirkman therapy can last as long as 24 months and cost up to $50,000. It usually begins with a thorough search through women's personnel records for patterns of discrimination in such areas as salary and lines of advancement, and continues through interviews with top executives, middle managers and a random sample of female employees. Then Boyle, Kirkman or one of the firm's five consultants (all women) present recommendations to top management. One startling example of bias that they turned up: Kirkman, reviewing the records of 300 women employed by a major...
...appointment with undisguised pleasure. "To Ziegler, information was something to be packaged and merchandized for his client," says Lisagor. "The feeling is that terHorst will treat information as an objective commodity." To Peter Kumpa, Washington bureau chief of the Baltimore Sun, terHorst is "sensible and moderate, a thorough professional...
...cover-up holds through the summer. On Aug. 29, Nixon tells a news conference that Dean has conducted a thorough investigation and "I can say categorically that . . . no one in the White House staff, no one in this Administration, presently employed, was involved in this very bizarre incident." Dean never made such an investigation, according to his testimony months later. On Sept. 15, in a recorded Oval Office conversation, Nixon congratulates Dean: "The way you, you've handled it, it seems to me, has been very skillful, because you-putting your fingers in the dikes every time that leaks...