Word: detectors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hawkes acknowledged, however, that a faulty smoke detector in L-entry was left deactivated until about 3:30 p.m. The detector was faulty and was not reactivated in order to avoid another false alarm, he said...
...savings and loan crisis. The B.C.C.I. caper. Insider trading. Think of all the notorious business scandals that briefly enriched white-collar crooks during the greedy '80s. All those financial fiascoes might have been prevented with a simple lie-detector test: golf...
...escapee from a cosmic lunatic asylum" named Doomsday will murder the Man of Steel. The state of Pennsylvania touts itself as a place for "multiple personalities" to suggest it has much to offer tourists. A character on Roseanne argues that only "murderers, psychos and schizos" can beat a lie-detector test. On election eve, Ross Perot tells a cheering crowd, "We're all crazy again now! We got buses lined up outside to take you back to the insane asylum...
...Just as lie detector tests can't be used in the court of law, because of the uncertainty, we felt that similarly there was too much uncertainty in this information for them to use it," he says...
...largest problem confronting the scientists is the sort of statistical error that bedevils political pollsters. For while physicists sometimes base discoveries on a single observation, more often they must rely on multiple events to build a case. Thus a second intriguing event, recorded by the Collider Detector in December, has come under especially intense scrutiny. The discovery of the top will no doubt emerge gradually, believes Peter Galison, a science historian at Harvard. "The expanding circle of belief," he says, "must start inside the experimental collaboration and then widen to include the whole physics community." How long this process will...