Word: thorough
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There are few public institutions in history that have undergone such thorough public scrutiny as has the intelligence community of our country in the last four years--particularly, of course, the Central Intelligence Agency. The CIA is and should be our most secretive government agency. The fact that it has undergone this public scrutiny is really extraordinary; perhaps it is the first time in history that the world has had opened up to it a major intelligence organization in almost all of its aspects...
...resolution concerning the training of teaching fellows states, "Since teaching fellows conduct most of the small group instruction at Harvard, it is disappointing to see that they all do not receive thorough and rigorous preparations...
...respect we wholeheartedly agree with Professors Ware and Vaida: it is unfair to single out EDB without considering all the other potential hazards of the laboratory. Considering the attitude demonstrated in the case of EDB, it seems to be time for a thorough, independent review of all health and safety hazards in Harvard's research and teaching laboratories...
...Mead was ready. When she learned last year that she had a generally fatal form of cancer, she refused to let it slow her down. Instead, the scientist who had spent a lifetime observing others turned her still keen powers of observation on herself, and continued to keep her thorough records on her own process of aging. Her attention was appropriate. Of all the people she studied, few were as interesting as Margaret Mead herself...
...emblems of a cultural empire: no style or movement since surrealism was diffused so fast, or imposed itself as completely on painters around the world. But the earlier work of these artists, done before, during and just after World War II, is still patchily known. Last week the first thorough retrospective of it, "Abstract Expressionism: The Formative Years," went on view at New York City's Whitney Museum: an altogether fascinating show of 120 paintings by 15 artists, assembled by Art Historians Robert Carleton Hobbs and Gail Levin...