Word: thorough
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...After a thorough probe of the accident that crippled Apollo 13 and endangered the lives of Astronauts James Lovell, Fred Raise and Jack Swigert, NASA Deputy Administrator George Low announced last week that the space agency had determined the probable cause: a short circuit that led to the explosion of an oxygen tank in the service module...
Last month Interior Secretary Walter J. Hickel, a former Governor of Alaska, said that he would sign a permit for construction of the line. The only thing delaying the $1 billion project, he added, was a "thorough engineering and design analysis" to make sure that the line would not harm the Alaskan environment...
...most thorough studying linking DDT to robin kills in New England was done five years ago at Dartmouth. After a "typical" DDT application, the robin population dropped 70 percent. Many robins and other birds were found in convulsions...
Hampered at first by tightness after an unusually long warm-up. junior Chris Nielsen picked apart Navy's captain, George Galdorisi, with a precise thorough baseline game, and whipped him in straight sets-6-1. 6-3- at number three Galdorisi had won last fall's ECAC singles championship for lower-ladder players...
...weeks still isn't a very long time, but it's certainly an improvement over the old days," Powers said. "Because time is short, the emphasis in training is on the responsible use of firearms and a thorough knowledge of criminal law. There is, for instance, a fine line of distinction between felonies, for which an officer must arrest someone, and misdemeanors, for which he may arrest you, but doesn't have...