Word: detective
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...curiosity about life on Mars, the report also gives top priority to a Mariner orbital flight in 1971 and a Mariner-type craft that could orbit and land on the red planet by 1973. Mariner's large payload would enable it to carry instruments that might well detect life on Mars, if it exists...
...example, believes that "our job begins and ends with the reporting of facts." Harris argues that survey results are meaningful only if they are digested and interpreted. Each pollster has his own methods. Harris likes to reinterview some one he has already talked with, figuring that he can thus detect changes in sentiment over periods of time. Gallup, on the other hand, argues that a second interview makes a voter selfconscious, so that he gives a less accurate reflection of public sentiment...
...official dryly, "We don't care if a man wears a beard, just so long as he doesn't wear it into the office." Geico Insurance Co.'s Washington office frowns on culotte dresses, but refrains from formally banning them because they are often difficult to detect. Many companies, in fact, shy away from hard-and-fast rules on dress, choosing instead to deal with individual cases of way-out clothing as they arise. San Francisco's Transamerica Corp. conducts grooming classes for its women employees in an effort to upgrade "taste," hopes in that...
...Angeles' White Memorial Medical Center, the Analyzer was ranged against cardiologists using ECG machines. The new device thought it saw abnormalities in 5.6% of cases where they did not exist, which only meant a bit more work for the experts. On the other hand, it failed to detect a real abnormality in 2.7% of the cases examined. But Thiokol scientists say this percentage can be reduced by technical changes...
...eight-month prison term for publishing a letter that denounced Catalan nationalism-a letter that echoed the government's own views. Why, then, was he punished? In a nation where veiled irony and subtle ridicule have been wielded so often in place of open criticism, nervous officials may detect calculated mischief-making even in some reports that seem to follow the official line...