Word: detector
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Euclid (gentlemen) or minarets, masks and medieval maidens (ladies). Bookshelves in a corner are filled with an array of titles, including A Room of One's Own, The Jerusalem Bible, Son of Dune, Dante's Inferno, and a Magazine called "Shark Week." A sign on the scary-looking detector at the door reads, "This is not a metal detector or anything scary like that. It's a bookguard system that will beep if people run off with our books. We got it so that we can greatly expand our library and at some point in the near future sell books...
...airport in North Carolina last week. The guard grabbed Wilder by the neck and pushed him against the wall after the ex-Governor tried to read his name tag. Wilder wanted his name because of the rough treatment he got when his suspenders set off the metal detector. Other guards pulled their colleague away. Wilder then left for Virginia; the guard left...
...Reproductive Health Services clinic is purchasing an intercom so that the security guard posted outside can relay messages without having to open the front door. The Choices Women's Medical Center in New York City, which is already patrolled by armed guards, made plans to install a metal detector. Even Dr. George Tiller of Wichita, Kansas, who has practiced under the tightest security since he was shot by Rachelle Shannon in 1993, felt a new level of anxiety. "The turning point in our profession occurred last week," he said, "when innocent bystanders, as it were, were slaughtered...
...served Henrickson with a subpoena to appear before a grand jury and given him a two-page letter of immunity, which protects the pilot from criminal charges and subjects him to perjury charges if he is lying. The former Tyson captain has also volunteered to take a lie-detector test. In his first conversation with TIME, Smaltz did not admit to knowing Henrickson. But when asked about the letter of immunity and presented with information that TIME had gathered, the independent counsel spoke with unusual candor. He found Henrickson's story "very interesting," he said, partly because in their first...
...sixth anniversary of the explosion aboard Pan Am's Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, the Federal Aviation Administration announced it will begin installing a new plastic explosives detector technology that might have prevented that and other terrorist bombings. The $8 million move -- first disclosed last week in TIME Daily -- means that U.S. airports with international service will install it this year, with a FAA verdict on additional sites to follow by early 1996. The detectors, which use X-rays and CAT scan-like technology to scan passenger luggage, is now in use at Brussels and London airports...