Word: detective
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Each month millions of women check their breasts for suspicious lumps in an effort to detect cancer early. Now doctors are urging men to perform a monthly self-examination of their own, this one aimed at cancer of the testicle...
...unveiled last week, the price of the Saudi arms package totaled $8.5 billion. The five AWACS, whose advanced radar enables them to detect aircraft at a distance of 250 miles to 350 miles, and their support facilities account for $5.8 billion of that, and have attracted the most attention. Yet the proposal also includes 101 sets of fuel tanks to extend the range of the Saudis' fleet of 62 F-15 Eagles. Probably the world's best jet fighters, the F-15s will be sent to the Saudis in a sale that former President Jimmy Carter pushed through...
...tray of food sits there, untouched. Every once in a while, the hunger striker steals a glance at it. After the first week, the servings seem enlarged to a ravenous man, the beans huge, the scones puffed up. His sense of smell is also more acute; he can detect the kind of food almost before it arrives. The breakfast tray waits until lunch, lunch stays until dinner, and dinner remains all night long. British authorities say they have the obligation to keep food always available. The prisoners consider the practice taunting and cruel...
...analysis-calling the world as the agency sees it, whatever the conflicts with Administration policy. Other officials feel that the agency should tailor its reports to the decision-making needs of the President. Casey was seen by some as reflecting this view. When a CIA report failed to detect the degree of Soviet influence over worldwide terrorism that the White House is convinced exists, for example, Casey ordered the study to be redone, and then redone again...
...match a brand-new U.S. spy plane, the TR-1, that went into service last week; its cameras from an altitude of some 80,000 feet can draw a picture of enemy movements 200 miles beyond a battlefield. Though the Soviets have more submarines, the U.S. can easily detect where they are?whereas the Soviets, so far as is known, have never tracked even one of the 2,000 voyages that U.S. missile-firing submarines have made, some of them very close to the U.S.S.R.'s shores. In sum, the Soviets are not ten feet tall, nor are American forces...