Mr Gertz too promises more for the 80, 000 men under his command: more training, pay incentives and the expulsion of all officers who turn out, once the laborious process of checking their files is completed, to have criminal records.

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"The mechanical process of checking things was not as sophisticated as it should have been, " she told the Times.

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Diehr, in which the Supreme Court upheld a patent for curing synthetic rubber that covered the process of checking temperatures and pressures and adjusting them according to a set of specified parameters.

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GE's, but Selectronic compensates with rigorous training and a checking process that vets every one of the 1.3m lines of transcription the company produces monthly.

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But he said the process of "due diligence", checking on ETS' references and financial strength, had failed to identify a string of press reports highlighting previous problems in the United States.

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Checking these things out is part of the due diligence of the hiring process.

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For years biologists made DNA in a tedious process that involved copying thousands of DNA molecules and checking them for errors by putting them back into cells.

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Companies across the country are routinely checking the credit of prospective employees, and as you can imagine, this process can adversely impact the hiring decision for a lot of people.

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