Word: inspecting
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...bustling suburb in the past two decades. On the night of Sept. 7, 1984, Maria Marshall, 42, was shot to death while sitting in the family Cadillac. Husband Robert O. Marshall claimed he had parked the vehicle in a dark picnic area off the Garden State Parkway to inspect a tire. He further maintained that as he bent over someone struck him on the head and when he regained consciousness his wife was stretched across the front seat with two bullet holes in her back...
Gorbachev, whose background is in agriculture, has shown a special concern for the environment from the beginning of his reign. Early on, he toured the country and took care to detour from the carefully prepared showcase routes to inspect firsthand the polluted rivers and devastated forests. Funds for environmental protection, about $24 billion this year, are projected to reach $46.4 billion annually in the first half of the 1990s. At the same time, Gorbachev's regime has cracked down on polluters. Around Lake Baikal, about two dozen violations of ecological standards have been referred to prosecutors. In Nizhni Tagil...
...Graham supporters remained after therecount to inspect the machines and othermaterials used for voting, including waste paperon which voters may have written or placedstickers. The Election Commission impounded allpapers used in the election on the night of thevote...
Last week the Federal Aviation Administration proposed a rule requiring airlines to shore up their older 737s by replacing the 7,200 rivets on each plane's fuselage. "It's time to fix design weaknesses rather than continuing to inspect for flaws," said Anthony Broderick of the FAA. "It is a fundamental shift in our way of operating." Safety experts predicted that the ruling would eventually be extended to other aircraft that are 25 years old or older...
...major sticking point was Spain's insistence that the U.S. be prohibited from bringing nuclear arms onto Spanish territory; Washington refuses to disclose whether its ships or aircraft carry nuclear weapons. The deadlock was finally broken when Spain tacitly agreed to renounce its right to inspect U.S. vessels...