Word: detectors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...precautionary measure against terrorism, security guards required everyone entering the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, where the HMC offices are housed on the 15th and 16th floors, to walk through a metal detector and pass their belongings through scanners like the ones used in airports...
...Israelis had a different idea. They saw Awad's defection as a chance to blow a hole in the Palestinian underground. Israeli officials asked to speak to Awad alone, and they gave him a lie-detector test. Then they made an offer. "Your life is at a dead end," a Mossad officer told him. The Israelis would give him $5 million to start a new life in Paris. There he would continue to be involved with the Palestinian freedom fighters, and to boost his credibility, the Swiss would make it look as though he had carried out his mission...
...says Jim Harrington, legal director of the Texas Civil Rights Project. Harrington has not filed a major civil rights case in federal courts in the past seven years. Two years ago, though, he convinced the Texas Supreme Court that the state's constitutional right to privacy precluded mandatory lie-detector tests for state employees. And in 1984 he won the right to workers' compensation for itinerant field hands under a state equal-rights amendment passed...
...Governor of North Dakota came under fire from disapproving legislators who discovered a radar detector -- legal in North Dakota -- in his truck. Sinner explained that the fuzz buster was a gift from his children. Said he: "It's sort of a sacred, emotional thing...
Finding any kind of neutrino is a neat trick. The Baksan detector consists of four tanks filled with 30 tons of the element gallium, which liquefies at about room temperature. If a solar neutrino of the right energy interacts with the material in the tanks, a feat of atomic alchemy will transmute some of the gallium into germanium, another metallic element...