Word: thorough
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...council proposal will get what promises to be a thorough tryout. The Twentieth Century Fund, a small but prestigious nonprofit foundation, announced last week that it was creating a group with two missions: 1) to investigate and report on allegations against major news organizations and 2) to attempt to speak for the press when it is threatened by official restrictions. The project is the result of an 18-month study by 14 jurists, educators and newsmen.* They proposed establishment of a 15-member council comprising journalists and others yet to be named. The chairman will be former California Chief Justice...
...David S. Broder, chief political correspondent for the Washington Post, based his often prescient columns on a thorough grasp of Washington realities and extensive travels through the country. Broder pinpointed a paradox in the voters' mood: "We're not notably consistent in any respect. We want to keep the Russians and Chinese in their places, but we want to end the draft. We want the benefits of mass production techniques, but we want relief from the drudgery of assembly-line jobs...
...William F. Buckley's conservative National Review early published a thorough analysis of McGovern's controversial economic theories, claiming through charts and figures that McGovern's proposed retooling of the federal budget would create an additional deficit of $100 billion a year. For one thing, increased taxation of estates would not yield as much as McGovern estimated, wrote Associate Editor Alan Reynolds! "Surely it is obvious that more donations would be made by people while alive, that there would be more profligate consumption, that people would work less and retire sooner...
...sympathize with the feelings of the women in your article, but they are doing themselves a disservice by not receiving the thorough medical attention that only an M.D. is trained to provide. I might suggest that they encourage their daughters who are interested in medicine to pursue careers as physicians. VALERIE M. PARISI Brown University Medical School Providence...
...assist them in developing recommendations to the Board of Directors for changes in the plans which would enable the Coop to improve benefits, especially pension benefits, reduce administration costs and update the plans. Mr. Archibald Price of Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Company was retained for this purpose. After a thorough review of the old plans and extensive discussions between Mr. Price and the management, detailed recommendations were prepared for the Board of Directors. These recommendations, in essence, were to provide all insurance under a new group life insurance plan; to shift the funding vehicle for the pension plan to a modern...