Taxes were efficiently collected, accounts audited, misappropriations tracked down, public expenses pruned, and city spectacles and municipal services cut down thus alienating rich and poor alike both in the provinces and in the capital.
Barbara Demick, in "Nothing to Envy," her book on the ravaged social landscape of North Korea, collected accounts of how ordinary North Koreans set themselves to just that task after the death of Kim's father, Kim Il-sung, back in 1994: "It was like a staring contest.
When MacKenzie notes that her husband 'was not interviewed', this may indicate that followup questions about those collected accounts were either not asked or not answered by Bezos.
Anthropologists working in recently settled communities have collected accounts showing that tribespeople carefully observed nonindigenous communities before they made contact, for example learning people's names.
Information was collected on medical signs and symptoms of the women prior to death and an extended section collected accounts of care pathways and opinions on preventability and cause of death.
"Father Kapaun had several chances to get out," Warrant Officer John Funston later told a Catholic priest who collected accounts of Kapaun's actions in Korea, "but he wouldn't take them".
"Father Kapaun had several chances to get out," Warrant Officer John Funston later told a Catholic priest who collected accounts of Father Kapaun's actions in Korea, "but he wouldn't take them".
Human Rights Watch collected accounts in late January documenting 25 cases of forced recruitment of children outside the mission's Malakal base.
"What better excuse does it need than confessions of foreign plots, beaten out of detainees?" Human Rights Watch has collected accounts from detainees after their release illustrating how the authorities are mistreating and threatening prisoners in a deliberate effort to obtain false confessions.
