Word: detect
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Like all crime, really, more goes on than you actually detect," he says...
...most cases of academic dishonesty are harder to detect...
Nonetheless, Gore's political predicament is being invoked with increasing frequency in debates inside the White House, which is why some aides detect a new hesitancy in areas where Clinton has long been firm. Until now, for instance, it is difficult to think of an issue on which Clinton has been more consistent than trade. His campaigns to open markets through NAFTA and the global-trading arrangement known as GATT rank as two of his chief foreign-policy accomplishments...
...Zeroing in on PROSTATE CANCER? An experimental blood test may be able to detect 95% of prostate cancers--and avoid unnecessary biopsies. Unlike today's screening test, which measures the total level of prostate-specific antigen, the new one homes in on just one important form...
Frazier Todd Jr., a flimflam man from Atlanta, sussed out the IRS's inability to detect fraud. Todd obtained Social Security numbers from dozens of Atlanta women who lived in public housing projects. He then secured employer IDs from the IRS (making him look as if he were hiring them) and transcribed both numbers onto W-2 forms that he used to prepare electronic returns. Todd filled in an income for these women and a figure for taxes withheld that was high enough to kick back a generous refund. Todd then took the returns to banks to obtain "refund anticipation...