Word: detector
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...Orwellian terms, National Security Decision Directive 84 seemed perfect for 1984. Issued by the Reagan Administration a year ago but delayed by Congress, it included two Big Brotherly provisions: the widespread use of lie-detector tests within Government agencies to help find the sources of leaks of classified material, and a requirement that for the rest of their lives the 128,000 officials with access to top-secret information submit anything they propose to publish to Government censors for "prepublication review...
...high as expected. Since then, the sulfur dioxide lev els have been slowly tapering off, just as they drop after a major volcanic eruption on earth. Another investigator, Fred Scarf of TRW Inc., the spacecraft's builders, disclosed that an on-board instrument called a plasma-wave detector had recorded repeated lightning discharges over two mountain regions. On earth, such electrical activity commonly accompanies volcanic outbursts...
Under the controversial directive federal employees with security clear attics would face random he detector tests and lifelong censorship According to the General Accounting Office the investigative arm of Congress that category involves some 2.5 million individuals almost halt of detail workers an additional 1.5 million civilian contractors with security would undergo similar surveillance...
Millions of others subject to the surveillance sections could find their careers impaled upon he detector rests of dubious reliability. Though a recent Office of Technology Assessment study concluded "no scientific evidence exists to establish the validity of polygraph testing," with accuracy fluctuating wildly from 17 to 99 percent officials could face reassignment or demotion for refusing to take the test. Perhaps, though, accuracy is not the intent as Richard Nixon put it in the Watergate Tapes. "I don't know whether the detector tests) are accurate or not, but it doesn't make any difference. Test them...
...team filed through a metal detector, paged through considerable paper-work, and stood through a preliminary talk given by a prison official...