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Word: inspectors (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Trouble with border officials can still seriously disrupt a man's life. Take the case of Terrence Walsh, who now works as an American customs inspector himself, and once was employed by the Butterfield Co., an industrial cutting tool factory which is the town's major employer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Partly in Vermont: A Borderline Case | 8/13/1979 | See Source »

...first official city of Cambridge Health Inspection was scheduled for February 15. Inspector Joseph Cremens confirmed most of the tenants' complaints, citing more than 125 health code violations in five inspections. By the end of his visit, he had only seen approximately half of the buildings' apartments...

Author: By Jonathan D. Rabinovitz, | Title: Would You Rent an Apartment From Harvard University? | 8/7/1979 | See Source »

...sense on Middle European court politics at the turn of the century. Sellers must save his best comic efforts for the prince's role. He makes him into a perfect twit, a gambling, womanizing, cowardly wastrel, complete with an absolutely splendid lisp that is as loonily effective as Inspector Clouseau's fractured French...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mixed Double | 6/11/1979 | See Source »

...Clemenson in "The Great Train Robbery." His face bulging and mind oozing, the inspector explicated the crime. "When you speak of train robbery, I want to emphasize that this involved no loss of train, merely its contents. We haven't lost one since the blizzard of 1946, when we misplaced a small one." Well, then, who could have perpetrated the crime? Clemenson leans forward ominously, wrinkles his brow, and emits his conclusive response. "We believe this to be the work of thieves." Oh, so thieves are responsible? "Oh, good heavens, no! I believe the thieves are irresponsible...

Author: By James G. Hershberg, | Title: Fringe Benefits | 5/14/1979 | See Source »

...appropriation hearings, witnesses from the Environmental Protection Agency claimed that they were unable to control toxic substances because they could not hire enough staff. HEW lamented that it could not correct abuse and error because of missing personnel in its newly created Inspector General's office. What reason did the scandal-ridden General Services Administration give for not speeding up its investigations? Because of Leach, there was a paucity of gumshoes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Leach's Lash | 4/30/1979 | See Source »

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