Word: thorough
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Until thorough studies are made, acupuncture in the U.S. is likely to remain a rarity. Even some acupuncture enthusiasts warn that would-be pin stickers should exercise caution. Dr. Samuel Rosen, a noted New York ear surgeon who visited China last year, points out that the Chinese spend years learning the method and doubts that Americans can master it in less time...
...than by raising prices. The Price Commission last week specifically reaffirmed its policy of not ordering such firms to cut prices, no matter how much their profit increases. Phase 11½ is thus not a war on profits-which would be inconceivable in a Nixon Administration-but the most thorough test yet of the idea that inflation can be checked by monitoring large corporations...
...candidate because of his early and unequivocal opposition to the war. But in putting together his first primary victory of 1972 in Wisconsin, he plainly attracted voters to whom the state of the economy is a more pressing concern. Moreover, he was the first-and is still the most thorough-of the candidates to lay out detailed position papers on such other issues as tax reform and defense spending. Not much attention was paid to the McGovern papers at first, since he did not seem a likely winner...
Sloan describes his latest work as an attempt to explore the "question of connection between planes of reality"--an experiment in the non-linear story popularized by John Barth. In fact, the book is nothing less than a thorough annihilation of the concept of rationality, a "stoic" work in the very audicity with which it posits the insanity of normalcy...
...attributes the trio's success to a thorough search for responses that older pollsters may miss. "We're not magicians, we're just listening posts," he asserts. Their ability to frame the unasked question may diminish, Caddell thinks, as he and his partners mature. Though they plan to tend their business full time once they graduate, Caddell says, "We'll probably only be good for from five to ten years...