Word: detective
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...work crews but the major construction must be done by citizens of the host country. Though fine in principle, that led to some sticky situations. In 1983 Soviet workers halted work for several weeks on the U.S. embassy to protest American use of an X-ray machine to detect structural flaws. The Soviets said it was hazardous to workers' health, but it became obvious that they were more concerned with the machine's real function: locating eavesdropping bugs that workers might be secreting in the walls...
...Americans, 90% of them gay men or drug abusers. But the CDC says that at least 119 Americans have contracted the lethal AIDS from blood transfusions. With death lurking in the national blood supply, the Federal Government and five private drug companies began developing a method to detect evidence of AIDS infection in donated blood. The first such tests have been approved by the Food and Drug Administration, and last week test kits from Abbott Laboratories were shipped to blood banks around the country and overseas...
...bombers and cruise missiles, which, because they fly relatively low, could not be zapped from the heavens. After the Soviets shifted their main emphasis to ballistic missiles, the U.S. let its once extensive air- defense system deteriorate. Today it could not fight off a bomber attack, or even detect a cruise-missile assault. (It has trouble enough with drug- running airplanes.) A Star Wars system would have to be accompanied by a strengthening of air defenses that James Schlesinger estimates would add $50 billion a year to whatever might be spent on Star Wars...
...A.M.A. makes another suggestion: that the medical community first heal itself, purging incompetent doctors from its ranks. How? By revamping peer- review procedures already in place and using computer systems to detect incompetent doctors, thus enabling hospitals to screen them...
That theory, put into practice, made James an extraordinarily subtle and supple critic. He could extol writers like Balzac and Dickens, whose narrative methods struck him as awkward but whose stories enchanted him all the same; he could meticulously detect aesthetic flaws in the works of George Eliot and Anthony Trollope and still commend their unique achievements...