Word: thorough
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...without handcuffs, from the maximum-security Adjustment Center-the prison home of death row inmates on one floor and those deemed incorrigible on another-to a nearby visitors' area for a conference with a lawyer. Before leaving the Adjustment Center, Jackson was made to strip for a thorough "skin search," a regular routine for Adjustment Center inmates. As was usual during such a search, his thick Afro-style hair was briskly rubbed to loosen any contraband that might be concealed there...
...search for the young grenadiers was more thorough and more brutal than any previous Israeli sweep. Green-bereted border police, rough Druze rather than Hebrew, came to help; incidents mounted until one officer and what the army described as "a number of soldiers" were charged with unnecessary brutality toward Arab civilians in the course of their searches. Informers eventually turned up Mahmoud Slieman Zak, who had been paid $28 to toss the grenade. Israel rarely invokes the death penalty, so the boy was sentenced to seven life terms plus 50 years. Mahmoud showed little emotion until the judge said that...
...unearthed a human toe; soon they had dug up the whole body. Then last week a farm hand working on a nearby ranch spotted a suspicious-looking mound. The sheriff's men went back to work and quickly came up with a second corpse. That touched off a thorough search of the orchard country around Yuba City, Calif., a normally placid town (pop. 13,986) on the Feather River 45 miles north of Sacramento. Using shovels and finally a tractor with a scoop, the deputies turned up body after body; by late last week, continuing a crescendo of horror...
...methods of preventive medicine, both to improve the quality of care and hold down costs. Hospitals will have to receive more incentives to operate efficiently. Ultimately some kind of ceiling, voluntary or imposed, may have to be worked out for fees. The duration and cost of medical education need thorough review...
...fate of the Cuban revolution, many books deluged the market to meet the new demand. Two of the most recent entries, both translated from French, Guerrillas in Power by K. S. Karol and Cuba: Socialism and Development by Rene Dumont, provide seriously interested readers with the most thorough studies of Cuba's revolutionary problems. Although sympathetic to the ideals of the Cuban revolution, both Dumont and Karol remain pessimistic about Castro's leadership...