Word: detect
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Navy failed to detect the continuing deception because of a persistent Pentagon problem with its advanced projects: so much of the work was highly classified that there were not enough competent auditors with clearance to examine the bills...
...breast tumor is large enough to be felt as a lump, it is generally more than 1 cm (0.4 in.) in diameter and contains several billion cancer cells, some of which may have broken loose, circulated through the bloodstream and begun to infiltrate other organs. A mammogram can detect pinpoint tumors that are less than 0.5 cm (0.2 in.) across, often well before the process of metastasis has started. This is not to say that a manual exam by a doctor or the woman herself is a waste of time. Such exams can sometimes turn up tumors missed...
...major terrorist mystery. Just three weeks earlier, a bomb had exploded on a Pan Am jet flying from Tokyo to Hawaii; it killed a Japanese teenager and injured 15 other passengers. That bomb too was made of plastic explosive. It had easily passed through security checks designed to detect metal weapons and stop hijackings rather than bombings...
...substances, used in door panels and floors, account for about 14% of a typical airplane's weight, in contrast to 2% ten years ago. Stealth bombers and fighter jets are wrapped in skins of composite nonmetallic materials that help make the planes more difficult to detect with radar...
...food with radiation makes it dangerous to eat. The visual inspections carried out routinely in the plants can weed out obviously diseased chickens, but the contamination is usually invisible. A panel of experts convened by the government may recommend soon that the Department of Agriculture develop better tests to detect salmonella...