Word: thoroughness
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...House intelligence committees would be notified of any similar operations in the future. His efforts mollified Democratic Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New York, who withdrew his resignation as vice chairman of the Senate intelligence committee. Casey and the Senate committee also agreed on the need for "more thorough and effective oversight procedures, especially in the area of covert action...
...paper is sometimes at odds with itself: the editorial page has asserted repeatedly that the Soviet Union is engaging in chemical warfare in Asia in the form of "yellow rain," while Journal news reporting has offered other explanations for the phenomenon. The news staff takes pride in giving thorough coverage to the problems of labor and the unemployed, and in challenging the questionable practices of corporations. After Mobil Corp. President William Tavoulareas sued the Washington Post for alleged libel for saying that he "set up" his son Peter in a shipping company, the Journal reviewed the circumstances in a story...
These were but two of 17 changes made by John Paul in his most thorough shake-up to date of the church's powerful administrative body, the Curia-moves that Italian newspapers described as "il terremoto" (the earthquake). In doing so, the Pope further weakened the traditional influence of Italians on Roman Catholicism's bureaucratic machinery. When the Second Vatican Council began in 1962, twelve of 16 Curia offices were headed by Italians; as a result of the latest moves, 16 out of 22 are now headed by foreigners. There are rumors that the Pope is planning...
...contact with people who have more detailed and/or current views of Harvard's academics. Undoubtedly, some proctors are highly capable advisors and many can give valid general advice about course selection, but a lot of the questions freshmen need to have answered demand that the advisor have a thorough familiarity with Harvard's courses and concentration requirements...
Kundera's novel is fortunately much better than this mouthy beginning promises. Kundera emerges as a personable, witty, and capably fluid narrator, whose story line is even and surprisingly thorough. It is puzzling, by the time one has finished the book, that a narrator as humane and accomplished as Kundera would have begun so blockily...