The United States has blocked aggressive inspections while it tries to build a consensus for firm action in the U.N. Security Council.

This year, the President proposed an initiative that combines aggressive inspection with new tools to detect outbreaks of food-borne illnesses before they become widespread.

Really tough and aggressive inspections could do even better and just might be able to neutralize Iraq without a war.

More aggressive inspections would have found Iraq's calutrons, machines that concentrate the uranium isotope that produces nuclear fission.

The officials have also pushed for immediate and aggressive inspections of North Korean nuclear sites, actions that North Korea has said it will not allow.

But some diplomats sympathetic to the notion of aggressive inspections say that idea is not well thought out.

Absent aggressive inspection, he will do just that.

More aggressive inspections and a low-interest loan fund for repairs might help improve buildings in poor neighborhoods.

The Bush administration is hoping to use a combination of aggressive inspections and pointed political advice to persuade local officials to back away from the border drug trade.

"Contrary to previous, less aggressive inspections, F.A.A. found some air carriers and airports were not complying with security measures as required," the report noted.