Word: detectors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...even listed six members of the transition team most dismayed by Percy's performance. Two days later the Washington Star identified one of the six-John Carbaugh, an aide to North Carolina's archconservative Senator Jesse Helms-as the leaker. In high dudgeon, Carbaugh demanded a lie detector test. The State Department asked the FBI last week to investigate the leak, after both Percy and Helms separately called for an inquiry. Conspiratorial types, however, suspect that Helms, who will be the second ranking Republican on the Foreign Relations Committee, is anxious to cut Percy down...
...required no batteries, could work forever, had no moving parts except for the detector. It had its problems, though. It picked up all broadcasting stations but could not separate them and its sound volume was barely noticeable...
...earliest portable radio was the most portable ever made, the lightest, the least expensive and completely solid state. And this was almost 60 years ago. It consisted of a galena crystal detector mounted on a necktie stickpin and had four connections, for antenna, ground and headphones...
...workers accidentally triggered a smoke detector in Widener Library yesterday, the latest in a series of recent incidents that have forced Cambridge firemen to evacuate the building...
...overreaction? Perhaps; but last year a Detroit jury found Voikos' story so convincing that it ordered the discount chain to pay her $100,000. The hefty compensation was unprecedented, but there is growing evidence that Voikos' ordeal was not. Lie detector tests, either to screen job applicants or to uncover theft by employees, have become big business: hundreds of thousands are given each year, and the number is rising steadily. But despite technical improvements in the equipment, the accuracy of the results is often open to question, and there are persistent reports of browbeating by examiners. One supermarket...