In a recent study of participants of the Memory and Aging Project — a continuing examination of 1,200 older people involving extensive lifestyle questionnaires, annual cognitive testing and brain autopsy at death — Dr. Wilson and his colleagues found that more frequent cognitive activity late in life was associated with substantially slower cognitive decline.
But Mr. Kerik said that as a part of his continuing examination into how the department handles alcohol-related incidents involving officers, he wanted the officers disciplined as quickly as possible.
"People don't seem to connect to what this is, really, because of the crime," she said of her continuing examination of the Los Angeles legal system, with its problems with celebrity justice.
The new moves are part of the government's continuing examination of whether, from the late 1990's through 2001, telecommunications companies and energy companies conducted swaps of network capacity merely to inflate the reported revenue of the trading parties or to mask losses.
Its founders proposed "to initiate a critical and continuing examination of governmental policy in areas where science and technology are of actual or potential significance" and to create an organization to assist "scientists and engineers so that their desire for a more humane and civilized world can be translated into effective political action".
The literature reports inconsistent evidence of the effects of nurse staffing on mortality despite continuing examination of this association.
The chance to direct "The Last Letter" arose in 1995, when he made a documentary about the Comédie Française, another departure from his continuing examination of American institutions.
Staff also recommended support for studies that explored newer themes, such as the economics of disarmament and understanding internal conflicts and their causes, along with continuing examination of approaches to sustaining peace, strengthening international law, and achieving world order.
Lawmakers investigating financial improprieties at WorldCom said today that their continuing examination of company documents had convinced them that the company had engaged in flagrant fraud.
The continuing examination of what went wrong at Hopkins has raised broader questions about how tightly the government should regulate academic research.
