Word: detective
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...system is so precise that the sniffers can detect a single polluting smokestack almost four miles from a sensor. Officials at Shell's giant refinery in Rotterdam recently received a call asking them why the plant's No. 4 boiler was burning oil with an unusually high sulfur content. As it turned out, Shell had run out of cleaner fuel-and wrongly figured that its burn would pass unnoticed in Rotterdam's smoggy...
Despite improvements, Soviet submarines do not run as deeply and quietly as U.S. subs and are thus easier to detect and catch. Soviet surface ships lack air cover when they venture outside Russian waters. The Soviet navy is now trying to remedy that failing through the installation of shipboard antiaircraft missiles...
...instruments measures the energy of charged particles that emanate from the sun and distant stars. By analyzing this radiation, which is virtually impossible to detect through the earth's shielding magnetic field, scientists may learn more about such near-terrestrial particle phenomena as the aurora borealis (northern lights) and the Van Allen radiation belts...
...Government and the Governed. His current identity as one of the most powerful politicians in the Wilson Cabinet pokes through the do??sb mannerisms: the gray hair parts in the middle, the glasses slide down his nose, the fingers clench in good podium style, the wrinkles of the mouth detect a sly grin. The Opposition must think him a sassy socialist...
...City's Madison Avenue has a daytime squad of 15 private police hired by the area's merchants for $2,400 a week. Less visible protection is being supplied by many companies never before concerned with the security business. Astrophysics Research Corp. has developed a machine to detect dynamite up to five feet away. K.M.S. Technology Center has devised a system that compares the fingerprints on an ID card with the finger of the man carrying...