Word: detectives
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...authors of "build-down" also want a reduction in the number of Sea Launched Ballistic Missiles. However, the Poscidum and Trident submarines are America's best deterrent, and the greatest guarantee for peace in the nuclear age. They are mobile, hard to detect, and hard to destroy. The Soviet Union knows that they offer a retaliatory potential which Russia cannot ignore. Therefore, what peaceful purpose is served by putting a cap on the number of submarines with missile that the US can deploy at any given time...
Even before they went out to dinner, it was fairly obvious to first-afternooners that Playwright O'Neill has moved Greece to New England. Those who knew their Euripides were quick to detect a parallel between Mourning Becomes Electra and the classic tragedy, recalled how Agamemnon, returning from the Trojan War, was killed by his wife (Clytemnestra), how the long-lost son Orestes finally killed his mother's lover and his mother at the instigation of Elektra...
Movies and pay cable may brandish their R-rated license, but none of the saltier four-letter words has yet passed the lips of a prime-time hero. No sitcom vixen has bared so much as a nipple. In the new shows one can detect a struggling within the mass-media straitjacket of language and sex. Prime time is like a twelve-year-old tentatively imitating his big bad brother: sneaking a cigarette, practicing a curse word, miming an open-mouthed kiss. Sex can only be suggested, of course, but it may also be suggestive; one smoldering glance can steam...
...typical electronic surveillance system costs about $3,000. For that the homeowner gets a network of sensors that can detect break-ins. An intruder sets off a piercingly loud alarm and triggers a signal in the central monitoring station or at a police station. Charges for the monitoring service: about $30 a month...
They believe that the figures may reflect a growing alertness and willingness among officials in schools, hospitals, law-enforcement and social agencies to detect and report instances of child abuse. Relatives and neighbors of the victims also seem more ready to ask the relevant local authorities to intervene. The wall of silence is breaking down even in cases of incest and sexual abuse of children by close acquaintances, which were almost always hushed up in the past...