Word: scan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pits. Camouflaged with grass, they await their prey. A stillborn calf lies as bait within inches of each of the earthen blinds. Nearby, other men squat beside a row of four metal cannons, ready to fire weights attached to a 40-ft. by 50-ft. net. Frustrated, they all scan the sky, hoping that the wintry clouds collecting on the horizon do not close in. The 20-lb. Gymnogyps californianus rarely seeks food on stormy days...
...extent of the injury is unknown, although the doctor speculates on a stress fracture. X-rays have shown nothing, and she is scheduled for a bone scan in the near future...
...FRIDAY night and you're ready to party. You roll into the Yard with some friends only to be greeted there by a vast empty silence that sits on the Freshmen dorms like a fat man on a playful puppy. You scan some Houses; Mather, Kirkland, Quincy. Nothing. The only signs of life are from solitary souls with loud tape-decks and pre-meds scurrying through the night for warm, secret places to study...
...image of the mystery man gained further dimension as neighbors of the Stammers from their days at Serra Negra began to speak up. Some remembered how he would climb to the top of an eight-foot observation tower on the farm and scan the horizon through binoculars. Basilio Silotto, a farm worker, reported that Pedro had told him once that Hitler was a great man. When a defective person was born, the old European confided to Silotto in tones reminiscent of the Auschwitz researcher, he would soon vanish...
Much of the agency's work focuses on accounting. Officials scan the records of nuclear plants to determine whether all the radioactive material received is either properly stored and used or accounted for as waste. The inspectors also check film from tamper-proof cameras installed at strategic locations in nuclear facilities to discover possible abnormal movements of personnel and equipment and to watch for nonreported alterations in the plants. The frequency of inspection varies from three or four times a year under normal circumstances to sudden visits if an emergency occurs. A few inspections are unannounced. Certain facilities, like uranium...