Word: thorough
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...York Times noted the Justice's death in the lower right-hand part of its front page. The Times formated the Justice's biography by outlining his stands on many important Supreme Court decisions and mentioning a few well known quotes from his carreer. The Times story was both thorough and kind, but it did not say why Potter Stewart mattered...
...many other areas of "greater responsibility" must Lown and his crowd collect before they shed their mask and own up to their blatantly political orientation? The clear intent of IPPNW--to discredit and change Western nuclear weapons policy--deserves a thorough exposition and labelling, if not by IPPNW itself, then by concerned observers throughout the West. Responsible discussion of what the West should do to prevent nuclear holocaust is not served by dissembling pseudo-experts like Dr. Bernard Lown...
Unlike the students who prepare the CUE Guide, professors and administrators have an inherent conflict of interest that can only stand in the way of thorough, candid and useful evaluations...
...coming from far behind to win the World Series during the last weekend of October, Dan Rostenkowski, the Illinois Democrat who chairs the House Ways and Means Committee, was trying to stage a dramatic rally of his own. Only a few days before, his goal of presiding over a thorough reform of the U.S. income tax code had seemed virtually dead. But Rostenkowski called extraordinary Saturday and Sunday sessions of his committee in an attempt to breathe new life into the tax-reform effort. Though the meetings broke up at dinnertime, giving the baseball fans in the group a chance...
...color, Texas leaves a lot to be desired. But as a novel it is above average. Read as pure novel, Texas is not bad entertainment, even if it is long. The reading goes quickly, and even if the outlook it produces is skewed, it does give non-Texans a thorough exposure to a remarkable, offbeat place and its equally remarkable and offbeat people. Anyone who can remember one tenth of the details will be a walking encyclopedia of things Texan from the number of types of cactus in Big Ben National Park to the unlikely origin of "The Yellow Rose...