Word: inspection
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...brunt of their efforts on the adult proprietors of the 32 liquor stores, not errant 15-year-olds looking to buy some beer. If the CPD makes it clear to local stores that violation of the law will not be tolerated, they will have greater incentive to closely inspect ID's, and minors will be refused service. The goals of the CPD can be achieved without sending young students to jail...
...Ekeus, who headed the commission until last summer and is now Sweden's ambassador to the U.S. On June 22, 1996, Ekeus and Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz signed an agreement guaranteeing that U.N. inspectors would have "immediate, unconditional and unrestricted access" to all sites they wanted to inspect. The accord does contain a paragraph that calls for respecting Iraq's sovereignty and territorial integrity, but Ekeus says this was only a repetition of formal language in the 1991 truce agreement...
...video "The Way Things Go," in the "Sausage Series" the artists remove human presence and distort scale, producing a world of crude cinematic maquettes overrun by cigarette-butt villagers and sausage-mobiles. In "The Carpet Shop" a group of cornichons inspect piles of thinly-sliced processed meat doubling as Persian carpets with fat-swirl designs and olive-chunk embroidery. Hardly just playing with their food, in these photographs Fischli and Weiss provide a wry social critique, probing the banality and vulgarity of a middle-class Swiss breakfast--an insult to American anti-cholesterol culture. Yet, at the same time their...
...would put Seng and Peov on any tribunal chosen to judge him, for the reason that they are the enduring casualties of his work. I picture them at the trial. They hear the evidence against him, inspect the photos of the hills of skulls and learn all that this monster did to burn over their country. But in the end it is they who condemn him--they and tens of thousands of other Cambodians now in their 20s who remember too much and wake up screaming like children...
...find Sarah Ban Breathnach's recipes for achieving an "authentic self" unpalatable may find greater sustenance in Elizabeth Perle McKenna's When Work Doesn't Work Anymore. Where Ban Breathnach tries to cool women's overheated lives with a sprinkling of sachets, McKenna delves deep to identify and inspect the "indigestion in [women's] souls." What emerges as the chief gastric villain is a workplace that "makes no allowance for anything to be more important than work...