Word: inspection
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...academics working under the Freedom of Information Act may count all the Florida votes and find that Gore actually won, thereby precipitating a crisis of legitimacy for Bush. Piffle. Bonior seems to miss the point of all these court challenges, which is to ask: By what standard do you inspect and judge the ballots? It is precisely because subjective or partisan standards are in play that the courts are trying to sort the matter out. How could a journalist or academic ever come to a definitive count, especially considering that the much-manipulated punchcards are aging and shedding chads daily...
...quite measures up to Harry Truman. He rebuilt the White House, gutting it and replacing ancient timbers with steel and concrete. To much public displeasure, he added a balcony off the private quarters on the third floor. Like many Presidents, Truman considered himself an amateur architect and used to inspect the construction progress, leading the likes of freshman Congressman Gerald Ford through the building chaos, explaining history and design with his usual irreverence. Truman also dispensed bits and pieces of the old White House to political cronies like Speaker Sam Rayburn, whose Bonham, Texas, library still has an original marble...
...they want their food," she calls to Little Brook, who has momentarily left his shopping cart full of bread to inspect some of the birds close...
Earlier this year the Governor of Colorado appointed a task force to study reform after three foster kids died in 18 months. What it found was startling: the bureaucracy was so fractured that overburdened state officials had given up trying to inspect all the privately run child-placement agencies. So the state simply granted them permanent licenses, and foster kids suffered...
...first law of the natural universe is that trouble always finds a path to paradise. And so it was that bird dogs from Perrier's Connecticut-based U.S. operations arrived on the scene early this year to inspect this bubbling wonder and nearly wet their pants...