Word: probed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Salvadoran guerrillas, meanwhile, are boycotting the election campaign and disrupting it with bold attacks, principally on economic targets. A slashing rebel probe last week shut off a major stretch of the country's Pan American Highway and destroyed a key bridge, effectively isolating a third of the northeastern Morazán department and putting it virtually under guerrilla control. Displaying the same tenacity that they had shown a week earlier in heavy fighting around the Guazapa volcano, the guerrillas were able to surprise and tie down army forces with smoothly coordinated assaults within the provincial capitals of San Vicente...
...experience in mountaineering as well as skiing. The route rises 6,000 ft., almost straight up from the roadhead, to peaks of 13,000 ft. and more. One requirement: a small radio transmitter for avalanche protection. Other arcana may include polypropylene underwear, vapor-barrier booties and avalanche-probe ski poles. The reward of the trek is skier's cocaine: unmarred 1,500-ft. alpine slopes. Experts claim the trail is the equal of Europe's Haute Route from Chamonix, France, to Zermatt, Switzerland...
Such programs are no deterrent, though, when the criminal is a trusted employee with authorization to roam through the computer system. In that situation, a company can hope to catch the culprit only after his misdeed has taken place. Several companies have developed programs that enable auditors to probe the record of transactions on a computer for any irregularities. Such a program is designed, for example, to uncover any unusually large or frequent transfers of money. A leading producer of these audit programs is Cullinane Database Systems of Westwood, Mass. Its sales grew 66% last year to $29 million...
...singular lack of curiosity during McCarthy's first years of invective. They failed, for example, even to find out the identities of those card-carrying Communists. Bayley also highlights distortedly melodramatic performances of the media, points out that many headlines and broadcasted leads exaggerated McCarthy's charges; Senate to Probe Department Reds" or "Reds in High Places Face Senate Quiz," many headlines read, assuming guilt for the accused Communist sympathizer...
...untied, Clemson still has not had a perfect season exactly. The Tigers' record was 12-0. They won the Orange Bowl over Nebraska 22-15 New Year's night, and the wire services anointed them champions of all college football. But a National Collegiate Athletic Association probe of Clemson recruiting methods is in progress, so nobody knows whether to cheer just...