Word: probed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...
...withdrew for the weekend to his mountain villa 80 miles west of Tokyo to put the final touches on what is expected to be an unusual combination: an offer to resign tied to demands for reform. These include renunciation of "money politics," an energetic continuation of the Lockheed probe and the election of a successor from the party at large, rather than by L.D.P. Diet members. Without such concessions, Miki could well refuse to resign since he retains considerable support. In that case he might yet survive as Premier or at least remain, in his fashion, a powerful elder statesman...
While Japanese voters were punishing the L.D.P., an Italian parliamentary commission digging into Lockheed payoffs has been winding up its own probe. The commission has indicted former Premier Mariano Rumor, two former Defense Ministers and nine lesser figures for accepting $1.5 million in Lockheed cash. Now the 20-member board of inquiry faces ticklish legal and political problems. Under Italy's bribery statutes, prosecution of graft-takers is nearly impossible unless those who supplied the cash are also charged. Last week the board considered indicting former Lockheed President A. Carl Kotchian and at least half a dozen other Americans...
Following the British lead, Houston's M.D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute, the U.S. Naval Research Lab, and the University of Washington in Seattle have all started using neutron irradiation. But Fermilab has a special advantage: it delivers neutrons at higher energies and thus can probe deeper into the tumors...
...antitrust division could not recall any other boss of so large a business who wound up in prison. But if Stanley Baker, head of the antitrust division, gets his way, Brown's case will be no fluke. Under Baker, a record 90 grand juries around the U.S. will probe charges of price fixing in various industries. Baker, as one of his assistants notes, sought the sentences against the carton executives "to drive home the point that price fixing is a serious crime." The clear implication: some other executives could join the box bosses behind bars...