Word: detective
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...escalating arms race. The new generations of nuclear weapons, such as mobile intercontinental missiles and long-range cruise missiles, that are being readied by both sides share several characteristics. They are expensive. They are extremely difficult to detect and thus to include under the verification procedures of any arms-control agreement. They will compel each side to take countermeasures, perpetuating a never-ending cycle...
...despite what Roach described as an era of "occasional misunderstandings, misperceptions and tensions," many theologians detect a new vitality and dynamism in the U.S. church, typified by the bishops' pastoral letter this year condemning the nuclear arms race. Asserts Father Carl Peter of Catholic University, a member of the Vatican's International Theological Commission: "The church in this country is healthy and reaching a new stage of maturity." He adds: "While remaining authentically Roman Catholic, we are becoming more and more distinctly American...
TOWARDS the end of his Star 80 review Vincent Canby of the New York Times wrote, "The story of Dorothy Stratten is pathetic, but only another Playboy model might find it tragic." Anyone who sees the movie will detect the narrowness of his statement. During the last scene, when Dorothy removes her clothes and lamely offers herself to her lunatic husband/captor, actress Mariel Hemingway (who portrays her) virtually redefines the word "heartbroken": Her eyes and posture convey the sudden wisdom, tragic in its belatedness, of a naive individual who finally realizes that she has not been loved...
...detectors also came under heavy fire. John H. Gibbons, director of the Office of Technology Assessment, said of polygraphs, "The instrument cannot detect deception. It's more of a fear detector than a lie detector." Making a similar point with flair, Dr. John F. Beary, former high health official in the Defense Department, said he had a way to determine guilt that was cheaper than a lie detector and almost as reliable, since "it's right 50% of the time." He held up a coin...
...other cities-including Detroit, Atlanta, Denver, Phoenix, Ariz., and Providence, R.I.-officers said it was too early to detect any effect on enlistments...