Word: k
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First there was the radar gun, and heavy-footed drivers were briefly slowed. Then came the radar detector -- a.k.a. Fuzzbuster -- and the battle of highway technology heated up. Police introduced K-band radar, which used higher- frequency signals to fool the Fuzzbusters, and "pulse" radar, which fired bursts too brief to be detected. But each new measure brought new countermeasures, including ever more sensitive detectors and systems that let speeders slow down without flashing telltale brake lights...
...easy to parody the overzealous quest for purity in Government and depict an Administration where top officials file disclosure forms each time they purchase an imported VCR at K mart. But it is also sobering to recall the taint that the "sleaze factor" left on the Reagan Administration and the nation's faith in Government integrity...
...compared the Verba Report to a 1980 affirmative action report--prepared by Dean K. Whitla of the Office for Instructional Research and Evaluation--which called for stepped up recruitment but offered no structural changes...
Transportation Secretary Samuel K. Skinnerappealed to Congress, where a House panel had ahearing yesterday, not to force the administrationto impose a 60-day cooling-off period...
ADMINISTRATION: Donald Sweet, Alan J. Abrams, Denise Brown, Teresa A. Foster, Helga Halaki, Katharine K. McNevin, Barbara Milberg, Teresa D. Sedlak, Rafael Soto, Carrie Ross Welch...