Word: thorough
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...down one by one in some parts of the country. Powerful lobbies will battle bitterly against such moves, and it seems politically impossible to substantially lower subsidies in the near future. But with food prices a hot issue in the presidential race, the time is at hand for a thorough national debate that could lead to future reforms...
...Manchus who had ruled China for more than two centuries allied themselves with older members of the elite to suppress the younger scholars. Liang Ch'i-ch'ao and other activists who advocated rapid and thorough overhaul of China's government were in exile...
...Good Friday, when the influx was at its height, there were only short delays at the border points. For the first time in 20 years, the East Germans also allowed West Berliners to travel beyond city limits into East Germany, but those who did so were subjected to thorough checks...
Cambridge Police have dusted the painting for fingerprints and police detectives are hoping to make a thorough search for the thief...
BESIDES THE virtues of clear and thorough reporting, Featherstone's book boasts at least two other invaluable assets; an unremitting emphasis on the need to resist dogma and to create change thoughtfully, if slowly in practice as well as in theory, and a refreshing understanding of where reforms probably begin and end, of how far schools may improve with straightforward changes in practice and to what degree boarder issues of race, inequality, income distribution, and public finance will have to be faced before more fundamental change is realized. Schools Where Children Learn centers on what Featherstone, in an interview, called...