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...foreseen when the President and Nancy Reagan arrived by helicopter at Bethesda Naval Hospital from the White House about 1:30 Friday afternoon. A routine checkup in March-had disclosed a polyp in the President's colon, and his doctors thought it prudent to remove it and make a thorough examination of the entire intestine at the same time. But they were in no rush and told the President he could schedule the procedure just about any time he chose. He eventually selected July 12, a day when there was nothing much on his calendar...
...Navy promised a thorough investigation into Jackson's allegations about the Kitty Hawk, which recently won a Navy excellence award for having the best-run supply department in the Pacific Fleet. "If this is the best," Jackson scoffs, "what sort of shape are the bad ones...
...review has been performed much too hastily,” said Weary Professor of German and Comparative Literature Judith L. Ryan, a Council member. “You can’t do a thorough review from top to bottom...in two scant years...
...confident that a Harvard-led team could present a thorough and impartial report that would help the public better understand the challenges of cost-recovery, completion and maintenance of the tunnel,” Menino continued in the letter...
Despite an onslaught of international media coverage months earlier, last month’s earthquake in Indonesia received an alarming lack of thorough media coverage. The death toll of the 8.7 magnitude earthquake, which hit 125 miles off the coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra, is estimated at over 1,000, minimal in comparison to the 270,000 casualties of this past December’s tsunami. While the earthquake did not cause the widespread devastation seen in the previous earthquake and subsequent tsunami, the island of Nias was ravaged...