Word: undergo
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Under the bill, no person under 21 years of age would be allowed electroshock therapy, and all those opting for treatment would undergo a seven-point health examination insuring the patient's ability to withstand the treatment...
...into effect next April) would have applied to officials cleared for "sensitive compartmented information." According to the General Accounting Office, the investigative arm of Congress, that category involves 2.5 million individuals, almost half of all federal workers; an additional 1.5 million civilian contractors with security clearances would also undergo such surveillance...
...detector tests have likened the procedure to routine blood alcohol tests that spot drunk drivers. But several major differences illustrate the incongruence of the analogy. First, police officers administer the alcohol tests only after a reasonable suspicion of drunk driving (weaving, excessive speed, etc.); under the Reagan plan, employees undergo random tests regardless of criminal suspicion. And second, the precisions of alcohol tests--accurate to several decimal places--provides prima facie evidence of guilt; while results of polygraph tests are haphazard at best. The arbitrary application of lie-detector tests coupled with their dubious reliability belies our ideal of painstaking...
Finally, it seemed, Harvard's legacy of ineffective student government would undergo a long needed transformation, transcending the constant struggles to attract participants. If nothing else, council proponents argued last fall, the new government would assuredly remain useful and popular through its annual allocation of up to $35,000 to fund the projects of needy student organizations...
...morning Ann Logan, 29, breezed through the doors of the Ar cadia Outpatient Surgery Inc. in Arcadia, Calif. Within an hour, she would undergo surgery to remove a lump of scar tissue from her breast. Logan snapped a plastic name band on her wrist, took her seat on a soft, brown leather sofa and began thumbing through a magazine. Hers was not going to be a long stay: a quick (55 minute) visit to the lemon-yellow operating suite, a brief rest in an equally cheerful recovery room, and then on her feet and out the door...