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...first six months after the Dade County courthouse in Miami installed a detector last year, an amazing 3,000 weapons were discovered. Peter Bensinger, former administrator of the federal Drug Enforcement Agency, estimates that about one-quarter of FORTUNE 500 companies require job applicants to undergo urinalysis to detect drug...
Other objections to testing include the claim that it is used mostly as a way to control subordinates, while higher executives are rarely tested. And there are many complaints about faulty screening. For urinalysis, a test called Emit (Enzyme Multiplied Immunoassay Test) is the method most commonly used to detect drugs. Though its manufacturer, the Syva Co., describes it as 97% to 99% accurate, critics say it is far less reliable in practice, in part because samples are not always properly stored or handled by lab personnel. "From the point of view of analytical chemistry, these Emit tests are unacceptable...
Better Off Dead uses this plot line not as a primary force, but as a cinematic exoskeleton under which the filmmaker can pit dueling concepts of American culture against each other. His tools are the carcasses of TSF's past, and the eagle-eyed student can detect flairs of John Hughes' best absurdist work, a soupcon of Risky Business's self-knowing psychological slant on civilization and its discontents, and a brief but illuminating pillaging of Woody Allen's treasure trove of neuroses (cf: post-tennis scene with Diane Keaton on her terrace in Annie Hall...
...deployment by the middle or late 1990s or after the year 2000. That does not differ greatly from the optimistic timetable for deploying comparable elements of an American Star Wars defense. The booklet also rather grudgingly concedes that in one vital area of Star Wars gear -- sensors to detect missiles and warheads across thousands of miles of space, as well as computers to aim lasers, particle beams or whatever -- "technologies . . . are currently more highly developed in the West than in the Soviet Union." But the Kremlin is trying to catch up, it warns, in part by illegally obtaining sophisticated American...
This fall the slabs will be subjected to electrical scanning. Corliss T. Van Horn, a Facilities Maintenance official overseeing the inspection, said the scanning is intended to detect flaws in the granite...