But Mr. Burton, underlining the absence of scores of potential witnesses, promised to carry on his open-ended inquiry.

He said it was more important for the government to tell the truth than to have a "costly and open-ended" inquiry.

Following Kuhn, we cannot but be aware of the internal resistance to change that disciplines exhibit, even in the supposedly open-ended inquiry of science.

The vote of the House of Representatives to conduct an open-ended inquiry creates a novel, all-purpose search for any offense by which to remove a President from office.

While this open-ended inquiry is inherently ambiguous, these apprehensive responses might also suggest residents' discomfort with changing a plan recommended by supervising physicians.

Impeachment: Vote to initiate a full-scale, open-ended inquiry into possible grounds for the impeachment of President Clinton.

In the new approach, students and teachers alike embark on a more open-ended inquiry.

She voted with the Republican majority for an open-ended inquiry, fearing that if an investigation was limited in scope and time, Mr. Clinton would "run out the clock."

Science is an open-ended inquiry into nature, constrained only by the phenomena of nature itself.

Unable to justify its actions under the Constitution, the majority will instead choose to launch its own Starr-like, open-ended, expensive, intrusive and wasteful inquiry for no stated reason at all.