Word: thorough
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...officials at Radcliffe which owns the three year old facility did not order a thorough investigation of the detects until last June because they said, the building's designers reassured President Horner that the problems were not serious...
...good to have TIME'S thorough coverage of the "Land Sale of the Century" [Aug. 23]. President Reagan and Interior Secretary James Watt have the courage and understanding to deal with the Government's tendency to acquire property and hold it long after the federal need for it is gone...
With any powerful drug, there is always a trade-off between the primary, beneficial effect and the cost in deleterious side effects: anticancer drugs kill healthy cells as well as malignant ones, and some drugs that relieve intense pain are highly addictive. A thorough review of the findings on Oraflex may show that given its benefits, the risks are as acceptable as those for other drugs in its class, including, significantly, aspirin. On the other hand, it may find that deliberate or inadvertent failure by Lilly to provide necessary but damaging information about Oraflex, coupled with a sloppy performance...
...years, he has resisted tempting network offers to return, including the chance to anchor ABC News in the late 1970s. During this time, MacNeil concedes that the networks have improved their product somewhat, providing more thorough, analytic coverage. He compares network news to the American auto industry: lacking competition it produced poor merchandise. Threatened today by cable news and improving local operations, the networks have been forced into doing a better...
...explained that De Niro and Williams were difficult to contact because they are superstars. Charged the Herald Examiner: "The police department's rush to close the case had all the earmarks of a cover-up." Responded Commander William Booth, aide to Chief Daryl Gates: "We conducted a good, thorough investigation...