Word: detective
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...doctor is in the throes of a rather too calculated crisis: his longtime office nurse, a childhood sweetheart and pathetically faithful dogsbody, lies dying of cancer that he failed to detect in time...
When he arrived in office 13 months ago, Jackson says, the state employed only 26 corporate tax auditors--while Massachusetts has 125,000 registered corporations. "We had more auditors to detect welfare fraud than corporate tax evasion--which is a more lucrative area," Jackson notes...
When mounted in an airplane, they were supposed to be able to detect undersea oil deposits from altitudes as high as 21,000 ft. Elf-Aquitaine, France's state-owned petroleum company, spent more than $150 million for research and development on the equipment in the 1970s. Yet no oil was ever found. In fact, there is no evidence that ' the expensive devices worked at all. A Belgian count who sold them to Elf has vanished, along with the money. As a result, the leftist government of President Francois Mitterrand is accusing its center-right predecessor of lying...
...wonder to achieve just such impossibilities. He gets all but universal praise from journalists and from officials he has interviewed, for both skill and affability. "In all the years I've known Ted," says ABC Morning News Anchor Steve Bell, "I've yet to detect the flaw...
...report examines security measures such as bolting personal computers to desk tops, alarms, and systems that can detect movement of if the computer is unplugged, said Lapointe. "We might have a key or card access system, but these might seriously interfere with the way we do things around here," Lapointe said...