Word: thorough
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...unusually thorough minority opinion, Justice William Douglas, writing only for himself, stated clearly that the 14th Amendment's Equal Protection clause "commands the elimination of racial barriers, not their creation in order to satisfy our theory as to how society ought to be organized." But the senior Justice made clear that the law school has broad discretion to give any individual applicant preference, so long as it is granted without respect to race. The majority may not go along, but what Douglas seemed to be suggesting was that if the school were to recast its admissions approach-for instance...
Kiely yesterday called the report "very fair and very thorough" and said the one-third-of-a-grade margin is "insignificant...
...Sundays one of them monitors a radio at all times for late news breaks. Helping them are Correspondent Patricia Delaney and Reporter-Researcher Anne Constable, and Stringers Paul Ciotti, Glenn Garvin and Gail Kennard. By questioning witnesses to last week's bank robbery, the team produced a thorough account of it. They also got exclusive interviews with members of the Hearst family last week. Boyce won the confidence of Linguistics Instructor Colston Westbrook, the former S.L.A. intimate who is now in hiding, and learned from him about the organization's early history. Boyce, in fact, recently arranged...
...After reading TIME'S article on world inflation, I would add that a thorough program of worldwide birth control should be employed if new agricultural areas (i.e., the Amazon and Congo basins) are to be developed by technologically advanced methods...
...years, campaign financing in the U.S. was governed by the Corrupt Practices Act of 1925, but not a single member of Congress was ever punished for transgressing it. The Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 sought to remedy the old law's defects by insisting on more thorough disclosure of the sources of campaign money. Another 1971 act took the first step toward public financing with a provision that enabled taxpayers to earmark $1 (or $2 on joint returns) on income tax forms for the party of their choice. But President Nixon gutted the provision by giving it little...