Word: thoroughly
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...slightly different forms than they were presented to me. Further, the interviewer gave me the impression that I would only be represented statistically, as opposed to being quoted verbatim. While I stand firmly behind the substance of my statement I would have presented my views in more considered and thorough terms had I been aware of this possibility. This is because, as any journalist knows, a printed statement creates a very different impression than a spoken one. The former is clearly extremely liable to misrepresentation and misunderstanding...
...police, in Chicago and elsewhere, say that thorough searches are often necessary in order to find weapons, drugs or dangerous objects a suspect may be hiding. But those who have gone through the experience for such things as traffic violations strongly disagree. With the help of the American Civil Liberties Union, 50 Jane Does with similar experiences filed a class-action suit this month asking the U.S. district court to restrict Chicago police from conducting strip-searches of women accused of nothing more serious than misdemeanors and traffic violations. A warrant would have to be obtained for such a search...
...more thorough Common Cause proposal required any public employee "with an economic impact other than a diminutive nature" to submit the feared financial disclosure form. In addition, the original bill required information on third party contacts, implying that lawyers would be forced to divulge the identity and background of their clients. Both of these unpopular provisions were struck from the present statute...
...California Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr., the biggest national figure to support a convention publicly, wants to place a balanced budget requirement into the Constitution as a philosophical symbol of national discipline; but congressional budget-makers each year would have to work with that symbol, which could never be thorough enough to cover the wealth of specific problems in a national budget. Nor could it be specific enough to discourage innovative congressional accountants from balancing the budget to the letter but not the spirit of the amendment...
...describes his area of research as "fair mediation"--ways to restructure the rules of bargaining to encourage truth-telling. He designs the games in his course as pedagogical tools that members of the class use to examine the practical options in bargaining situations. Students formulate strategies based on a thorough analysis of these options. The class also discusses ways in which restructuring the fundamental situation might inhibit lying...