Word: boxes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Afterward, while Raisa continued to give Paris a taste of her brand of Soviet chic (see box), Gorbachev made contact with France's working class. Accompanied by French Foreign Trade Minister Edith Cresson, he journeyed to a Parisian suburb for an hour-long tour of a highly roboticized Peugeot auto factory. The Soviet leader tried out the latest model sedan, then donned protective goggles to inspect the plant and chat with workers about wages and factory conditions. So determinedly upbeat was the visit that Soviet Ambassador to France Yuli Vorontsov jokingly told a Peugeot executive, "You're getting so much...
...Postiff has lived in Casmalia for 20 years, and the odor was new to him. "The first few times we smelled it," he remembers, "we called the fire department. We didn't know what it was." It is a strange, foul odor, not unlike the stench from a sodden box of cat litter. It reminds many of the women of home-permanent solution. Karen Wickham, who teaches at the town's elementary school, thinks the smell is like "fecal matter, but also sweet and fruity," and Mary Lou Smith detects an onion aroma. "What it is," says Kenneth Vaniter...
...morale is high: at the moment, the Sandinista army seems to have the upper hand in its four-year-old war against the U.S.-backed opposition forces known as the contras. "When we are attacked, we have to respond with fire," declares Defense Minister Humberto Ortega Saavedra (see box). The main insurgent group, the Nicaraguan Democratic Force (FDN), declared earlier this year that it had infiltrated 14,000 of its guerrillas into Nicaragua from Honduras and positioned an additional 3,000 along the border. Last week the Nicaraguan Foreign Ministry charged that the border forces were poised to invade Nicaragua...
There are several competing systems. Digital Product's On Guard is an electronic handcuff. The offender wears a wristwatch-like device that must be inserted into a verifier box in response to random telephone calls from a corrections computer. Control Data's Home Escort system and Controlled Activities' Supervisor attach at the ankle. The Supervisor system used in Florida keeps constant vigil by sending a radio signal every 35 seconds to a central computer. If the signal stops, it tells officials that the prisoner has strayed more than 150 ft. or so from his house. The computer can be programmed...
This method has scored some dazzling successes over the years. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police, for example, used it to trace prints from a box of pizza to a professional hit man who had gunned down a target while posing as a delivery boy. But some police complain that their computers are too slow and too undependable for routine police work. A typical computer search of the files can take more than six seconds per fingerprint and often overlooks prints that are even slightly smudged...