Word: thoroughness
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...that one." So it went for two hours and ten minutes, with Lance beaming broadly. Finally, Florida Democrat Lawton Chiles declared that the committee was giving him "our sort of Good Housekeeping seal of approval." It was clearly a reprieve for Lance, but not the final verdict. A more thorough probe of the Chicago loan by the U.S. Comptroller of the Currency may be completed by the end of this week...
...them to their pledges. In Belgrade, the U.S. delegation, headed by Albert Sherer, a former ambassador to Czechoslovakia, is determined to prevent the Soviets from sliding by an examination of their record on human rights and every other provision of Helsinki. The U.S. joined the British in proposing "a thorough review" and a "thorough exchange of views" on compliance with Helsinki. The proposal stipulated that although the signatory nations would try to finish their discussions in twelve weeks, they would keep on talking until they had fulfilled their mandate...
...They shot the last one." And Lane was convinced that Ray and the others would never have tried to flee unless someone was going to pick them up, probably on Route 116, a farm road that runs just a quarter-mile from the prison. Lane planned to conduct a thorough investigation to determine if one or more guards or officials in his prison had aided the escape...
...Secretary of Defense has ever come to the job with such sterling credentials or thorough preparation. Still, as Harold Brown points out, most of his predecessors got into trouble "because of things for which no one could be prepared." Then he adds with a slight frown, "There is nothing quite so likely to lead to error as believing that you know all about a situation when in fact it is not the same situation you remember. That's a trap I could easily fall into...
Lindbergh was a thorough professional, but he seemed to suggest a wonderful elan, a sense that anything is possible. That deep urge for individual adventure remains. Sometimes it merely involves robust hobbies - banging down white-water canyons in rubber rafts, hang gliding on the thermal currents, roping up the faces of cliffs. But beyond weekend diversion, there remains a vast array of exploration and adventure. It ranges, says Apollo 9 Astronaut Russell ("Rusty") Schweickart, "from the massive NASA kind of exploration to some intermediary type, such as Jacques Cousteau's efforts, where there is no question that the driving...