Word: detect
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although the risk is slight, Robison said those involved in the experiments should take all possible measures to detect any signs of the disease...
...drew nearer, few workers were certain of the exact date, but they could detect the quickening pace. Bernard Taylor, 84, was superintendent of a Boeing plant in Wichita, Kansas, making PT-17 flight trainers. One day in November 1941, Taylor noted a harried congregation of high military brass outside his plant. Then he was called in by his boss, who declared, "You're in the glider business...
...blackmailing Awad's business, to blow up Geneva's Noga Hilton. The story sounded farfetched, but when Swiss police went to the Noga Hilton, they found a bomb-rigged suitcase in Awad's room. As Awad volunteered more detail about Rashid's modus operandi, U.S. officials began to detect a link between the bomb in Awad's suitcase and the one that had blown a hole in the Pan Am jet three weeks earlier. But U.S. policy did not yet support a pursuit of Rashid. So Awad stayed where he was, content with the passport...
...Researchers now believe that blood tests to detect fetuses with Down syndrome are useful alternatives to amniocentesis, which increases the risk of miscarriage...
...government restraints as zoning laws and environmental regulations that reduce the value of their property without compensation. The information highway promises multiple collisions between intellectual-property rights and the free-expression rights of those who would use the data they find there. And the potential of genetic testing to detect a predisposition to illness or undesirable behavior will challenge the privacy rights of all Americans. Any of those issues could consume the court years from now -- or sooner. At Justice Blackmun's Senate confirmation hearings in 1970 -- just three years before he wrote Roe v. Wade -- no one asked...