Word: detective
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...computer and small movable fins for stabilization and control. The sensor homes in on the reflection of the laser off the target; the computer moves the fins to make minute midcourse corrections. Each F-111 emits a laser at a different frequency, which only its bombs are programmed to detect...
High-technology weapons have created a terrifying dilemma for airport officials in their war against terrorists. Already, new guns made entirely of plastic are being developed. Easily concealable handguns like the Glock, along with hard-to-detect components for putty-like explosives that are also readily available, give air pirates an edge that officials are finding increasingly difficult to counter. The Federal Aviation Administration, which oversees domestic airport security, insists that the Glock 17, which is legally sold in the U.S., can be detected on existing airport X-ray machines. The gun's manufacturer attributes Koch's success in "smuggling...
While helping current employees to quit taking drugs, many companies are working to make sure that they do not take on any additional drug users. More and more firms are requiring job applicants to submit to new, sophisticated laboratory tests that can detect traces of narcotics in urine samples, and before long, companies may also be testing hair...
...dismissive of the American offer but did not reject it outright. Said he: "Since the reply was received literally on the eve of this congress, the United States apparently expects our attitude to the U.S. stand to be known to the world from this rostrum . . . It is hard to detect any serious proposals on the part of the U.S. Administration to get down to resolving the cardinal problem of eliminating the nuclear threat." Gorbachev went on to hint that fixing a date for his next summit meeting with Reagan would depend on progress at the U.S.-Soviet nuclear arms talks...
Finally, there were the billions of signals sent between the doomed shuttle and NASA computers at Cape Canaveral's Launch Control and in Houston's Mission Control before and during the 73 seconds of its flight. The shuttle contained an extraordinary array of monitoring devices (sensors to detect pressures, temperatures, fuel flow, and so on), which reported their findings thousands of times a second. This flow of information, or telemetry, was so constant and so enormous that a lot of it was not sent either to the shuttle cockpit or to the consoles at Launch and Mission controls. Instead...