Word: detected
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mission was to detect and hold the Japanese soldiers at bay. Being so young, we were really frightened to be standing guard all alone, all night long, on a dark, lonely hillside. I spent a lot of time thinking about who could be out there in the night. I was so scared that I often heard and saw things that weren't there...
...general, the explanations given by practitioners cannot be squared with the Western science of physiology. Indeed, the mumbo-jumbo accounts are enough & to turn a believing patient skeptical. Chiropractors speak of subtle misalignments or "subluxations" of the spine, but other doctors usually cannot detect them. Acupuncture concerns itself with 12 pulses and 12 organs -- six solid, or yin, and six hollow, or yang -- connected to fingers and toes by channels through which energy flows...
After applauding Buffett for his changes, Congress focused its anger on regulators. House members, seeking a new image of toughness after being stung by the savings and loan debacle, blasted the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Treasury and the Federal Reserve for failing to detect Salomon's fraudulent bids fast enough. Congressional leaders accused regulators of being too cozy with Wall Street firms and warned that Congress would move quickly to overhaul the $2.2 trillion government-securities market to prevent similar abuses in the future...
...false documentation, the deployment of billions of dollars in unbooked letters of credit, and clandestine arrangements with compliant government officials in numerous countries, B.C.C.I. was ideally positioned for its role as arms marketeer to the world, particularly the Middle East. Though its tracks are often difficult to detect, TIME has discovered B.C.C.I.'s fingerprints on a startling array of transactions. Among them...
...date, PCR has been used to compare the DNA of extinct animals with their closest living relatives. It has assisted the U.S. military in identifying the remains of soldiers who died during Operation Desert Storm. It is beginning to help physicians detect small numbers of cancer cells circulating in the bloodstream and make prenatal diagnoses of genetic diseases such as sickle- cell anemia, as well as ensure better matches between organ donors and transplant recipients...