Word: polygraphers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...allegations arose last Thursday when a drunken man presented himself to the Somerville police as the mayor's lover. The man later admitted there was no basis to his charge, and Ralph proved his alibi with a polygraph test...
...moviegoer's response to Dirty Hands could be measured graphically, the piece of paper would read like the polygraph printout of a bumbling liar. There is no even pace to this film, which features more peaks and valleys than a postcard of the French Alps. The task of sketching the outlines of the three characters and their tension-packed relationships makes for a plodding introduction to Dirty Hands, but the story suddenly picks up when the adulterers decide to carry out their macabre scheme. The inevitable police investigation maintains the interest level for a while longer before the film enters...
...such technological advances as the polygraph would reduce the back load of court cases because innocence could be established early in the proceedings, Bailey said...
...princely sum covers salaries for Sprague's staff of 170, the lease or purchase of polygraph machines and copiers and the creation of a computerized cross-reference system for the thousands of documents the staff will sift through...
First, the sleep clinicians probe deeply into a patient's sleep habits−for example, by questioning his bed partner. They also video-tape his slumber behavior in special sleeping rooms, where patients spend the night hooked up to a polygraph, a lie-detector-like machine that monitors sleep-related physiological functions (breathing, muscle twitching, rapid eye movement...