Word: thorough
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...think I would only say that the Office for Civil Rights...is handling this review like many other reviews, and that would be in a very thorough fashion," Chao says...
...these noble ideals and aims will never be achieved in Cambridge unless Harvard's administration gives more serious and thorough consideration to the prospect of recognizing Greek-lettered organizations on this campus...
...dissents by its editors that accompanied it, reflected the honest confusion and disagreement of many students on campus, all concerned by the same questions of financial hardship, U.S. foreign policy, discrimination within the military, academic freedom and freedom of choice. The Crimson's coverage was, for the most part, thorough and interesting. I ask only that it work harder to assure a level of accuracy appropriate to a newspaper of its great tradition and prestige. Joel D. Hornstein '92 Undergraduate Council Representative
Throughout Egypt, the story is much the same. The walls of the Temple of Luxor, some 400 miles upriver from Cairo, are cracking so badly that President Hosni Mubarak, visiting the site in February, called for a thorough restoration. Nearly a fifth of the wall paintings at the tomb of Nefertari, across the Nile from Luxor in the Valley of the Queens, have been destroyed by salt deposits. In fact, says Zahi Hawass, who supervises the Giza Plateau for the Egyptian Antiquities Organization, "all the monuments are endangered. If we don't do something soon, in 100 years the paintings...
...Baltimore the physicists proclaimed their answer: no way. After weeks of thorough experimentation, researchers from numerous prestigious institutions, including M.I.T., Caltech, Yale and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, reported that they had found no evidence of "cold" fusion. The scientists seemed incensed that they had wasted their time trying to replicate an error-filled experiment and chided the University of Utah for requesting a $25 million federal grant based on sloppy research. Said Caltech physicist Steven Koonin: "We are suffering from the incompetence and perhaps the delusions of Professors Pons and Fleischmann." When the nine members of the cold-fusion review...