Word: thoroughness
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Although Harvard's assistant head coach John Babington preferred not to single out any one performance in what he called "one of the best-balanced and thorough team efforts ever," several Crimson competitors stood out in the afternoon meet...
...this point in our history, it should he clear to all of as that change is not a matter of new lows and systems. The most thorough-going changes in the way people collect many and spend, it, the way they raise crops or build machines, the way they vote or don't west prove puny and anemic up against the forces--of good, hunger for power, racism and the must--that seek to dissolve them. You cannot legislate those righteous phrases into being: you cannot compel with and justice and love. If you pass a law against segregation...
...Running and Fighting needed was a thorough editing by a publisher who had dealt with first-time authors before. Brett Fromson is onto something in Washington, and his subject merits the more serious analysis a longer work might have allowed. This one falters when he confuses imagination with observation...
...there must be a tour of the society, a complete and thorough tour, says Mrs. Khalil, who, locking her hand on the visitor's arm, pushes him through corridors from section to section. He shakes hands with everybody?every secretary, every group leader. He admires the embroidery done in the sewing room, and stands in awe of the beautician training center, and congratulates everyone on the jams and pickles?all bottled there. Mrs. Khalil points out "this and this and this"?until the two of them make a full circle and return to where the little children are packed...
...maintains that the American news media have improved since the 1950s. McCarthy's manipulations showed that reporting only what was said to the press and not what might have been the truth often led to bias and misinterpretation. Newspapers are no longer so vulnerable to sensationalizing slander, Bayley says. Thorough and effective news analysis no longer gets relegated to the editorial pages. The popularity of televised news has left investigative reporting as the "meat and potatoes" of print journalism. Increased staffs and decreased competition have allowed newspapers greater opportunity for research and more discretion about what, and when, to print...