Word: detected
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...heartbreak that finally clatter around the butler like broken Wedgwood. Here, Stevens will never wake violently from his reverie of duty served; he will be trapped in Darlington Hall like a bird that can't find an open window. So the filmmakers have dared believe that the audience will detect these domestic cataclysms in the performance of the man who plays Stevens...
...Machinery designed to detect flaws in nuclear warheads will soon be turned to more benign use: finding early signs of breast cancer. Digital X-ray systems developed at Lawrence Livermore weapons lab should spot tiny tumors that the old film-based X-ray machines miss...
...Union. "By next year we may not even have enough champagne left in stock." Others suggest that such optimism may come from drinking too much of the product. Analysts Gerard Morin and Jean-Francois Cotier of the Bank of France in Chalons-sur-Marne, the heart of champagne country, detect only "a slight ripple of improvement" this year. Larger champagne houses more dependent on exports will continue to be held hostage by the performance of the global economy, and analysts like Sylvain Massot, of the U.S. brokerage house Morgan Stanley, are not looking for a speedy recovery...
Washington -- After investing $42 million to integrate a long-range air- tracking radar system into its C-130 aircraft to help detect drug smugglers, the U.S. COAST GUARD concluded that the plane's $2.5 million annual maintenance and operational costs weren't worth it. So it decided to offer the plane to the drug-interdiction program at the Pentagon, the main agency charged with air and maritime drug detection. But because the Pentagon decided that "we already have better equipment," the plane was transferred to the Air Force to carry cargo...
Marsden says that if we didn't specifically search for it, we probably wouldn't detect an incoming asteroid or comet until radar picked it up at the range of the moon...