Word: detective
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...distances between cities become greater, too, in Virginia, and it's possible to engage in elaborate highway strategy aimed at avoiding speeding tickets. A friend of mine subscribes to the Radar Screen theory, which says that police radar machines can't detect a smallish car if it's near a big truck. My friend finds trucks that are going fast, and follows them close begind for hundreds of miles. There are disadvantages to this close behind a truck, you get spewed by exhaust and can't see the road ahead, and for me it's too much of a price...
JOHNSON. Sharply stepping up political intrigue via the FBI, Johnson got Hoover to assign a 31 -member "special squad" to the 1964 Democratic Nation al Convention in Atlantic City, ostensibly to detect any violent agitators. The squad, dispatched without Robert Kennedy's knowledge, supplied "hot line" reports to Johnson's political aides on intraparty battles at the convention...
...prevent fraud, the Office of Fiscal Services proposed equipment that can detect an annual validation code on the stripe. The machines could go in libraries, dining halls and health services, and cards would be validated after being checked against an updated name and address file...
...sixties, the other city councilors grew tired of his one-man rule. While Crane failed to detect the rumblings, he was ambushed and in 1966 a handful of councilors threw out his hand-picked city manager, virtually stripping him of his power. He stayed on to run again in 1967, but failed to finish in the top three and retired from politics...
...determine the genetic defect responsible for Joseph illness. But they have been able to trace its transmission. The disease can be passed on only by those who are actually afflicted; each of their offspring has a fifty-fifty chance of inheriting the ailment. Unfortunately, it is almost impossible to detect before it begins-sometimes in the victims' teens, more usually in the mid-20s. By then, they have often started having children of their own and have passed the family disease along to them...