Word: detectives
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weave, or color distinguish the merely good from the Prep. A small percentage of polyester in oxford cloth shirt of a lapel that's a quarter of an inch too wide can make all the difference." Only that idle elite can afford to spend time learning to detect such trivial differences and can squander money paying for them. What a pity that the rest of us are not the beneficiaries of a higher education similar to that of Birnbach et al.; we too might learn not to perspire in the shade of palm trees and tennis courts...
...early warning system is designed to detect the launching of Russian missiles in a nuclear attack on this country. Signals from satellites and radars are fed into a network of computers focused at the North American Aerospace Defense Command Center (NORAD) in Colorado and three other command centers. The information analysed and displayed by the computers is constantly discussed by members of the four commands in "missile display conferences...
...plant that can reportedly detect low levels of nuclear radiation is now available to the general public, a New York gift company announced yesterday...
Even more worrisome is the Army's not so foolproof method of detecting cocaine use, which consists of descending on a unit without warning to administer urine tests on a spot basis. The tests are supposed to detect the presence of benzoylecgonine, a component of the drug. The system, like many an effective military operation, relies on surprise. Unfortunately, because of lax security in scheduling the tests, that element is not always present. Says one troubled officer: "In some places the troops find out through the grapevine about a urine test five days ahead of time...
Several Medical School professors are seeking to introduce a genetic screening process to New England Medical Center that may detect fatal birth defects during prenatal care...