Word: detective
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Airborne Warning and Control System). NATO's purchase of 18 of these $128.5 million Boeing 707s cleared a major hurdle two weeks ago when it was okayed by a key committee of West Germany's Bundestag. Designed as an airborne command post, AWACS can detect enemy planes from as far away as 400 miles and then coordinate attacks against them. Says General John W. Pauly, commander of U.S. Air Forces in Europe: "With AWACS, our air defense becomes about 500% more effective...
...Atlanta; in Dallas, weekend motorists have had to cruise endlessly before finding a vacant space in shopping-center parking lots. But retailers still do not have a feel for how much the public will buy in a season of inflation-pinched pocket books and recession fears. Though some detect a one-last-fling attitude on the part of customers, many merchants have been notably cautious in stocking up, largely because high interest rates make borrowing to carry a large inventory too much of a risk. Says Leonard Lauder, president of Estée Lauder Inc., Revlon's toughest rival...
...need not quibble with particular findings to detect their limits. Let the stunning statistic from the Utah study stand-but add to it the universal knowledge that roughly ten out often people suffer "adverse emotional reactions" to life itself. Those who do not ought to have their heads examined. Even saints-especially saints-anguish. Evidently humankind from ages immemorial has known a rough time in that darkest gully of the year the season of the winter solstice. In fact, most historians agree that it was precisely to relieve the morbidity inherent in the season that the species invented the extravagant...
...orchestrated the campaign for ratification of the Panama Canal treaties. Last month, as the White House was preparing to announce Stage II of the anti-inflation program, an assortment of advisers seemed unable to square away the final details. Jordan got everyone marching. Usually his fingerprints are harder to detect. "Most people don't know what I ad vise the President," Jordan boasts. "When I do a memo, I type it myself and usually don't make copies...
...Egyptian behavior manual written around 2350 B.C. (Among Ptahhotep's precepts: Never offend a self-made man, and "Be silent, for it is better than teftef flowers.") Ever since then, social thinkers have believed that in manners, even in the most frivolous gestures of a culture, they could detect its hidden tectonics and tendencies. The German scholar Norbert Elias, in a magisterial 1936 work called The Civilizing Process, argued that man's "progress" in manners from the intimate and even somewhat disgusting communalism of the Middle Ages to the fastidious individualism of the Renaissance and beyond brought about an unwholesome...