Word: thorough
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Despite repeated assurances that the President wants a prompt, thorough investigation, the White House has fought blatantly and with marked success to drag out Watergate, to stall the impeachment process by every possible means. Nixon's lawyers last week maneuvered in court to slow the case and kept stonewalling against the House Judiciary Committee's request for more evidence, to which it is entitled under the Constitution. The committee's impeachment timetable continued to slip badly...
Mansfield agreed that Kissinger's reputation was making the search for his successor "more difficult." He said that the position requires "a thorough knowledge of diplomatic history, West European relations and strategic policy...
Nixon was up on Kilpatrick. One recent column suggested Nixon was innocent of criminal acts. But after a more thorough reading of the transcripts, Kilpatrick wrote another column deploring the White House squalor. When the writer hit the President with a question about the tapes, Nixon said, "I suppose that is some of that amorality you were talking about yesterday...
...graduate of Harvard Law School, Cowin emphasized the need to use the limited law enforcement resources to their maximum efficiency, the safeguarding of civil liberties, consumer protection, and the thorough investigation of corruption in government...
...year's term-paper scandal, in which hundreds of students bought papers from "term-paper factories"; the Chronicle reported that five schools (Boston College, Harvard, M.I.T., the University of Massachusetts and Northeastern University) took no action at all against the students involved. Last week the paper printed a thorough compendium of faculty salaries at more than 1,500 colleges and universities-a boon to potential job seekers in the current rush for fall openings...