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You see, I want you. to get the feel of investigative reporting.
I should have thought, mister Barnard that a man of your investigative zeal would have already solved the mystery.
We're an investigative agency only, Miss Ashton.
The ship's investigative procedures are sometimes confusing to a new crewman.
Well, Lieutenant, I shall rely. that your investigative imagination is somewhat better. than that of your underling.
Now we need investigative help on this one, Chief.
Well, Inspector, if you need investigative help and you don't trust your own men, why don't you requisition some recruits from the Police Academy?
In order to ensure this, an independent, permanent investigative body dealing with police corruption like this commission, is essential.
And as a P.R. Man, Ryan got us a lot of good press, and that's why I tolerated his, uh. his offhanded tactics, his total disregard for regulations, his sloppy investigative procedures.
The White House said he was doing some investigative work.
He was doing investigative work.
Next is another one of those investigative reporter shows.
Or that brilliant piece of investigative journalism you pulled off, by finding an eyewitness to the 2nd gunman in the Kennedy assassination.
I'm not an investigative reporter.
Now, we need investigative help on this one, Chief.
If you need investigative help and you don't trust your own men, why don't you requisition some recruits from the police academy?
In order to ensure this an independent, permanent investigative body dealing with police corruption, like this commission, is essential.
In the meantime, you're in investigative custody.
The creature is driven by rage and pursued by an investigative reporter.
The creature is driven by rage and pursued by an investigative rep0rter.
A TV newsman. Does investigative news.
If you need investigative help and you don't trust your own men. why don't you requisition some recruits from the police academy?
In order to ensure this. an independent, permanent investigative body. dealing with police corruption, like this commission, is essential.
She's currently in investigative prison.
The investigative team was trained and put in hibernation before the voyage began.
If you have any investigative power in you at all, you'll test these.
Also the Navy investigative Service, the Defence investigative Service. plus Customs and Immigration officials.
Given your low expectations of police investigative skills, Miss Fisher, you may be surprised to hear that we've found Mrs Henderson's valuables.
News and current affairs
Newspapers in most advanced countries are struggling or folding, and investigative reporting is often the first thing they cut.
Citizens should be able more easily to leak information, pitch stories, and send leads to mainstream investigative reporters.
They should organize new online entities in which they pay a fee for direct investigative reporting, unmediated by corporate pressures.
After all, as a campaigning investigative journalist she made many people angry besides Putin, not least of which is the current Chechen Prime Minister, Ramzan Kadyrov, whom she accused of a policy of kidnapping for ransom.
But the EU is using its rules and investigative procedures in ways specifically aimed at Russian businesses.
The scandals provided the right with an opportunity to deliver a coup de grace to the SLD in the form of parliamentary investigative commissions.
The directive on market abuse provides European regulators with greater investigative and sanctioning power, as well as enhancing cooperation.
Outside vetting - including published reviews by congressional investigative bodies, think tanks, and scholars - could add important insights.
If the necessary institutions remain unavailable, then at the least an investigative commission should be created to establish an evidentiary record while this is still possible.
Indeed, the heads of opposition or investigative journalists can literally be cut off, as happened in the case Georgi Gongadze, whose fate was prefigured in taped recordings on which President Kuchma is heard calling for Gongadze's elimination.
Last year, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists released information about Luxembourg's tax rulings that exposed the scale of tax avoidance and evasion.
But, whereas true investigative journalism depends on quality, WikiLeaks distinguishes itself by quantity.
In a time of official lies, healthy investigative energy should shed light, not just generate heat.
China's leaders apparently worry that Western-style investigative journalism inside China could trigger just such a crisis.
A promising financial instrument, capable of improving the efficiency of credit markets, is rejected; or the agency's investigative and review procedures become stultified.
They are applicable to all market economies that trade with it. But the EU is using its rules and investigative procedures in ways specifically aimed at Russian businesses.
But, as the investigative journalist Thomas J. Moore reported in his book Deadly Medicine, at the peak of their use, these drugs were killing more Americans each year than were killed during the entire Vietnam War.
The verdict would lend credibility to other charges of criminality, such as the bombing of four Russian apartment blocks in 1999 and the murders of several investigative journalists.
For example, in his book Flat Earth News, the investigative journalist Nick Davies reminds us of the millennium bug panic.
In February, Mr Kuchma awarded Volkov, whose money laundering was Mr Gongadze's final investigative target, Ukraine highest order of merit.
Investigative reporting has also revealed cross-pollination of anti-protest training: local police from cities like Austin, Texas, have been sent to Israel for training in crowd control and other tactics.