Word: thorough
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thorough was the restoration that 7,000 sq. ft. of marble floor tiles were lifted, cleaned and replaced with pieces from the same quarry in Italy that had produced the originals. Workmen spent a year on their knees reconstructing the mosaic. When the hotel reopened, however, the tiles were largely covered by carpet. "It broke our hearts to see the rugs go down," admitted Project Manager Michael Darby. "But marble floors are hard on the feet and very noisy...
During his gradual and thorough exploration of every aspect of theater, he picks up new acquaintances and new ambitions...
Giacalone, a slender woman with a wide and warm smile, has built a reputation as a relentlessly thorough prosecutor who works long hours. She likes solving intellectual puzzles; to assemble her cases, she has used masses of records and files that go back for 18 years, records that other prosecutors did not think worth the time. "Blind alleys disappoint some people," she says. "But I like them. You find many interesting doors on both sides as you walk down a blind alley." In 1985 she sent the Justice Department a 100-page memo outlining how Gotti and the others could...
Things are not so simple in liberal arts land. To get trapped in the GPA inferno, you typically have something original and interesting enough to say on exams and papers to get the grader flustered, but you are not thorough enough to impress with footnotes in the original Sanskrit. Neither a bullshit artist, a workaholic, nor a genius, the soul in this circle sees his papers and exams as an endless string of B-plusses, while the operators one floor up in GPA heaven thumb their noses and jangle their Phi Beta Kappa keys at the brighter minds below...
Once Wyman's proposal was broached, however, board members gave it a thorough airing. The dissection of the pros and cons went on for several hours. Board members heard legal opinions that they had no obligation to put CBS up for sale. But as one of those present put it later, the directors were also warned ; that "once you begin entertaining outside offers, you have to listen to all offers." A participant recalls that Tisch declared once again that his stock ownership "wasn't a takeover by Loews. He emphasized that he had a big stake in the company...