Word: thoroughly
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...after the six deaths at the academy, from 1995 to 1997, the Air Force "temporarily suspended" the T-3 training program and spent $6 million trying to fix the plane's engine woes. Air Force headquarters ordered a thorough investigation into the T-3 following questions raised by TIME in January 1998. Defending the plane after the article ran, GENERAL LLOYD NEWTON, chief of Air Force training, pledged to fly one of the planes before another rookie pilot...
...about time that AltaVista got some serious support. The service began as a tech experiment at the former Digital, but through deals with Yahoo it established itself early on as the most thorough search index of the Web. Digital and then Compaq tried to capitalize on the Top 10 traffic by adding "stickier" features such as subject directories and free e-mail, but that only created opportunities for new index companies like Inktomi, and now Google, to service the established portals - even while the attempts at a fuller AltaVista site floundered. MORE...
...published by Context Books in New York City), its chief aim is to assert his sanity. The book does not address the Unabomber crimes (nor does Kaczynski in person, for he is seeking a retrial and doesn't wish to damage his slim chances), but it is the most thorough accounting of his life to date...
...urges a comprehensive assessment of the pain's characteristics, including its causes and impact on the patient's activity and quality of life. Such an analysis should be performed immediately. If doctors undertake one without prompting, that's fine. But if they're prescribing for you without a thorough exam, it should raise your suspicions...
...there's blood in the stool or the sigmoidoscopy reveals a problem, a more thorough exam is required. (A positive stool test indicates cancer less than 10% of the time.) In a procedure called a colonoscopy, a gastroenterologist uses a light-tipped fiber-optic instrument to examine the entire length of the large intestine. Since you're sedated, the hardest part is often drinking the salty liquid needed to evacuate your bowels the night before...