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Word: inspectors (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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After the plane hit the embankment at 8:30 (GMT), the tail section embedded in the ground and the fuselage broke away and was scattered over nearby fields, said Inspector Neville Cotterill of the police in the city of Leicester...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: British Jet Crashes En Route to Ireland | 1/9/1989 | See Source »

...employees has had hundreds of hours of training. Nearly 500 of them were sent to Toyota City in Japan. They are not learning how to make cars. They are being taught how to work together more efficiently. More kaizens, less muda. "NUMMI is different," says assembly-line inspector Martha Gendel, "because the worker is being treated differently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fremont, Calif. Hands Across The Workplace | 12/26/1988 | See Source »

...disciple of Ohio State's legendary tough guy Woody Hayes, Holtz often joins huddles during scrimmages and scrutinizes backfielders like a Customs inspector. The idea, he says, is "to make practice worse than the game." The 5-ft. 10-in., 152-lb. coach once barreled onto the field and sacked quarterback Rice for goofing off during a passing drill. During competition, Holtz calls every offensive play from the sidelines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A New Crusade at Notre Dame | 11/21/1988 | See Source »

...monotonous prison scenes. Not that the viewer ever feels the film is an adaptation of Solzhenitsyn's A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch; it's never dull. But it does sparkle more when it's scrutinizing the Roth family than when it's ridiculing the Afrikaner police inspector...

Author: By Ross G. Forman, | Title: Growing Up in South Africa | 7/29/1988 | See Source »

...Harry, San Francisco's most lethal cop, Eastwood can earn both laughs and respect just by standing in a crowded elevator and grunting "Swell" to his boss. Truth is, this time around, he doesn't get to do much else. Evan Kim, as Inspector Harry's Chinese-American partner, is allowed to display some martial-arts machismo. Liam Neeson, playing a director of low-budget slasher movies who is high on Harry's list of suspects in a serial-killer case, corners the market in upscale cynicism. James Carrey gets to go fruitfully bananas as a rock star...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Harry Sundown THE DEAD POOL | 7/18/1988 | See Source »

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