Word: thoroughly
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...passes, Harrington's bill will force schools to develop more thorough, accurate admissions procedures. Castello says he thinks schools tend to place too much emphasis on test scores because of their convenience. "ETS will tell you that a statistical variation of 60 to 70 points is insignificant," Castello says, adding, "That range of error tends not to be widely enough respected. A law school regards an applicant with 700s very differently from one with 630s, for example...
...First Amendment. Sudden searches based on warrants disrupt the actual daily production of a paper, thus interfering with its constitutionally designated function of providing the public with the news. Far more important are the decision's ramifications on news gathering itself. When law officials burst in unannounced, their thorough search of the paper's premises poses a serious threat to confidentiality of the news sources. The court's decision might bar a journalist from being able to promise confidentiality to potential sources, thus severely restricting journalists'--and hence the public's--access to information...
...Presbytery of New York City, which must approve ordinations of new clergy, was not so sure. Two years ago, it asked the 2.6 million-member United Presbyterian Church for "definitive guidance" on ordaining homosexuals. That led in turn to the most thorough study of the issue ever undertaken by a major church. Last week in San Diego the New Yorkers got their guidance: 651 General Assembly delegates pronounced a resounding no to acceptance of openly homosexual clergy and lay officers...
President Carter, by nature, is what I would call a structural reformer. He doesn't like to deal with the superficialities of problems. He really likes to deal with the essence of the problem with thorough, far-reaching reform. You see this in his domestic programs and in the things he's trying to do in foreign policy. That generates much more resistance. Indeed, it may sometimes create coalitions of opponents and thereby create problems...
...Beit Jala incident gained national attention in Israel when it was reported by TIME Jerusalem Bureau Chief Donald Neff, who was the first journalist to investigate the episode. A spokesman for the Israel Defense Forces, citing a "thorough" probe of the matter, heatedly maintained that there was "no truth whatsoever" in TIME's account. Israelis accepted that explanation. The Tel Aviv daily Ma'ariv implied, falsely, that Neff had never visited Beit Jala...