Word: inspected
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...fire department will oversee the installation of smoke detectors. Regan said fire officials will test different models of the inexpensive detectors and list acceptable brands, and will inspect dwellings for the detectors...
...Soviet drive for domination cannot be blunted by what he calls "American purists who inspect the world with white gloves and disdain association with any but the spotless." Nixon feels it is imperative not to weaken our allies by insisting too rigidly on internal reforms, but he skips over the fact that a repressive regime may fall of its own weight. Part of the dilemma for the U.S. is to decide at what point an allied regime is still viable...
Four days after the blast, President Carter decided to inspect the devastated area. After a night in Portland, he climbed into the first of a flotilla of eight helicopters, packed with Cabinet officers, Senators, Congressmen and local government officials, including Governors Dixy Lee Ray of Washington and John Evans of Idaho. From the air Carter could not see the still-smoking peak of Mount St. Helens. It was hidden by rain clouds. But as his chopper flew at treetop level, he was astonished by the colorless landscape...
...THAT it hasn't been tried. In 1787 James Madison fought--unsuccessfully--to empower Congress to supplant state charters of corporations with federal charters when the public good required them. In 1901 President Theodore Roosevelt suggested--to no avail--that "the Government should have the right to inspect and examine the workings of the great corporations engaged in interstate commerce." Thirty-seven years later, populist Sen. Joseph O'Mahoney proposed a more far-reaching program called the "National Charters for National Business." It bombed...
...heck are you going to inspect this mammoth place," he says, walking past two animal technicians who are unloading a new shipment of rats into small opaque plastic boxes. "The MSPCA inspects but they don't really do anything. They just walk through the building to see if the animals are all right. He's the only one who's close to them. He takes care of them everyday. You could torture thousands of mice and no one would know but the technician," he adds...