Word: thorough
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first Henry sneered at bookkeepers and was bitterly antiunion. Henry the Second revived the company partly by instituting thorough cost accounting procedures and establishing relations of mutual respect with the late Walter Reuther. When Ford took over, the company was losing $10 million a month; last year it earned $546.5 million on sales of $14.8 billion...
...Gibson has been getting some volunteer help from members of the staff of New York Mayor John Lindsay. "I'm a civil engineer, an expert in building and rebuilding," Gibson says. "I will make my appointments solely on one issue -not race but quality." Gibson, a calm, thorough if not charismatic campaigner, gets clear approval as he moves through the black ward where he lives with a "Hey, brother, what's happening?" But one measure of Gibson's problem on the white hustings is the sentiment represented by the supporters of Anthony Imperiale, a white militant...
...Students travelling to Europe this summer should beware that the U. S. Customs Bureau frowns on the importation of marijuana or other artificial stimulants. Officials are currently planning more thorough checks of returning students to prevent undesirable vegetation from entering the country...
...authors. two veteran draft counselors. obviously hope their book will give draft-age readers "some control over your own destiny," But they do not let their purpose taint the quality of their research. They set out in laudably thorough fashion all the rules under which the draft registrant must play. For anyone who foresees rough relations with his draft board. the Guide's explanations of appeal procedure, classification systems. and conscientious objections can be immensely helpful...
...succeed in protecting Lon Nol's regime from further wearing away is still an open question. But it would be a bad mistake for the anti-war forces in this country to focus on the Cambodian intrusion as an independent phenomenon without extending their new awareness to a more thorough-going critique of American activity in Indochina. And it would be equally mistaken for them to hope merely for a speedy end to the "limited" American venture. Even after this "seven-week" venture, the American military commitment will remain extended there, leading to widespread suffering for those in Cambodia...