Word: thorough
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...Johnson, who himself overcame a lifetime of adversity, might well have admired a man who persevered despite such an intimidating legacy. Brady's years spent scrutinizing the Boswell papers at Yale, his close association with Pottle, and his obvious affection for the much maligned Boswell make for a thorough and often scintillating biography...
...Mental Health survey [BEHAVIOR, Oct. 15] provides important data on the prevalence of mental-health problems. However, various physical disorders can cause symptoms of anxiety, depression and even schizophrenia, and should be ruled out before a psychiatric diagnosis is made. Since the NIMH survey was based on interviews, without thorough physical examinations, the study's conclusion that one in five has a diagnosable mental disorder may be an overestimate. It is doubtful whether all those "troubled minds" identified by the NIMH study need professional help from mental-health specialists...
With the p.c.'s, students in K-School courses are now doing a more thorough cost-benefit analysis of proposals for bus scheduling, the effects of cuts in the food stamps program, and other matters of public policy, O'Keeffe said...
...study, by far the largest and most thorough of the 80-odd major surveys to take the psychic pulse of America since 1900, reports that during a given six-month period, one in five adults, or about 29 million people, suffers from mental problems. Only a fifth of those affected had recently sought professional help, mostly from general physicians rather than mental-health specialists...
Krakow in southern Poland boasts the only old city which did not need thorough reconstruction. Outside the walls, synagogues and buildings with Hebrew writing provide testament to a formerly vital Jewish ghetto. Six hundred elderly Jews live in Krakow now as compared with 65,000 before...