Word: detectives
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Lemmon, on his way back to the United States at the end of the movie, warns the U S officials in Chile, "I just thank God we still live in a country where people like you can still be put in jail," we detect more than a note of irony. And we wonder what it is that protects our precious rights, that puts gasoline in our tanks and food in our cupboards. To what extent do things that make our lives pleasant rely upon making others 'lives unpleasant? It is a question that we all, liberal and conservative alike...
Behavioral Effects. The principal active element in marijuana, delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), like alcohol, impairs motor coordination, the ability to follow a moving object and to detect a flash of light. Since these functions are necessary for safe driving, the report notes, their impairment "may suggest a substantial risk." The effects may last four to eight hours after the time the user feels a "high," unlike alcohol, which is more quickly metabolized. Marijuana hampers short-term memory, slows learning and produces distortions of judgment, including reactions of panic and confusion. Consequently, there is special concern since much of the heavy...
...recording his private conversations. The only conversations that I can detect that are being recorded are conversations with the press." And that, as all White House correspondents know, is done openly, with their full knowledge
...Society. Computer audit programs are selling so swiftly that the leading accounting firms are moving into the business. Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co., for instance, now markets its own program, called System 2190. FBI experts like Agent Paul Nolan, however, contend that so far such programs have largely failed to detect frauds by sophisticated criminals...
...most extraordinary political dramas this nation has seen. At noon on Wednesday, Jan. 20, with no special fanfare planned, the President completes a year in office, only one-fourth of his allotted term. The impact on Reagan of this first year is subtle, hard to detect by even those close to him. He tells more jokes than he used to, perhaps as a diversion from grim dilemmas and grimmer decisions. His infrequent secret moments may have lower depths than before...