Word: probers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...information unearthed reportedly transcends the discoveries of the Tower commission. "People were very careful," says one prober of the Iranscam schemers. "But they left a great paper trail." Some of the most important evidence, however, was not on paper but on computer tape: the White House has provided investigators with much more of the electronic correspondence between former National Security Adviser John Poindexter and his aide, Lieut. Colonel Oliver North, that proved so valuable to the Tower commission. These new messages, says a committee member, will be as crucial to explaining the essential mysteries of Iranscam as the White House...
...increase. Business-psych programs like the Human Edge series (Sales Edge, Management Edge, Negotiation Edge and Communications Edge) have been available for more than a year, although at $250 and up they have never sold particularly well. But Human Edge recently came out with a $50 program called Mind Prober that took the concept out of the boardroom and into the boudoir. When supplied with a few dozen descriptive adjectives about an individual, Mind Prober will concoct an instant character analysis that includes a report on his or her romantic attitude. Backed by some come-hither ad copy...