Word: detector
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Information Act--long a tool for watchdogs of the government--including a request to exempt the CIA from FOIA provisions entirely. He has signed an executive order allowing the CIA and FBI to monitor and infiltrate academic and press institutions. The Pentagon has ordered employees to take lie-detector tests, in an effort to root out news leaks...
...President "has a wide streak of the authoritarian instinct," Sevareid continued, citing the proposal of lie detector tests and censorship agreements for federal employees...
...former student of one of the most talented and inspiring professors at Harvard College, I was appalled to see such a fuss made over Professor James Q. Wilson's radar detector-a device which is not only legal in Massachusetts, but frequently used as well. A quick walk through any of the student parking lots in fact demonstrates that few undergraduates see anything wrong with owning such instruments...
...Detector Damage: Police responding to a fire alarm at a Canaday E-entry room found that the smoke detector system had been ripped from the ceiling. A party attended by about 30 people was going on in the room when the incident occurred...
Canaday Senior Adviser Terry Shaller said yesterday that the detector was in operating condition again...