Word: thorough
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pensions: The Broken Promise exposed some existing problems in privately administered pension plans that require more thorough investigation to bring about correction. In this particular instance, the good is acceptable and requires no comment; the bad is deplorable and should be brought to light for remedial action...
When the Pittsburgh Corning Corporation closed its asbestos insulation plant in Tyler, Texas, two years ago, it did an unusually thorough job of cleaning up after itself. Some 60 workers spent a week scraping asbestos waste from machinery and depositing it in a nearby dump. Then another crew took over. Ceilings and walls were steam cleaned. Every piece of equipment in sight was scrubbed down; some machinery was disassembled and shipped to P.C.C.'s home office in Pittsburgh. What was left was cut up and buried. When the crew finished, all that remained of the plant were two dilapidated...
...courtroom scrutiny is no less thorough than the computer study. For the current case, ten observers, including an Indian psychologist and a body-language specialist, are scattered around the courtroom jotting notes for later discussions on what the candidates revealed about themselves during questioning. Schulman's own comments tend to gauge emotional styles ("obdurate," "feels warm," "holding back"); Christie records types ("earth mother," "fraudulently mod," "Viking quarterback...
...Thank you, Democratic Congress, for conducting a thorough investigation to produce a Mr. Clean (in the person of Jerry Ford) to reside in the White House for eight years after the 1976 election...
Because Kohoutek was spotted much earlier than most new comets, astronomers have had an exceptionally long lead time to prepare for a thorough examination. They are taking full advantage of the opportunity. In addition to the conventional telescopes of every size and variety that will be following the comet, NASA'S big radio telescope in the Mojave Desert will be aimed at Kohoutek in an attempt to bounce radar signals off the comet's nucleus (those echoes may tell scientists more about the size and character of the nucleus). M.I.T.'s Haystack Radio Observatory will...