Word: scanner
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...this person has a right to work in the U.S. And that document is the Social Security card. It's not a national ID card. It's a card that you have to carry when you apply for a job and only then. The employers run it through a scanner, and they get an answer in short order that says, Yes, you may hire, or No, you may not. That would cut off 98% of all the traffic across the border. With your work force of 10,000 border-patrol agents, you actually could control the borders...
...colorful paint cans share installation space with a series of paintings set in rows along the gallery walls. The paintings incorporate layers of silk-screened images, most of which were produced with a flatbed scanner...
Pearson Educational Management, the company responsible for SAT scoring, said in a statement that the errors were caused by humidity in the environment, which “caused the answer sheets to expand,” and by answer ovals filled in too lightly to be read by the scanner...
...them. A new "wallet cell phone" functions as a credit, debit or ID card, among other things. The handset has a computer chip similar to that found in electronic key cards. Japanese girls are buying mascara, mints and magazines at convenience stores simply by swiping their phones past a scanner near the cash register...
Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) officers really know how to party on a Saturday night. Their music: the unintelligible buzzing of the police scanner. Their scene: the gritty, seedy nooks and crannies of the campus. FM was granted a tour of the College’s sordid underbelly—deserted back allies, dimly lit parking lots, the Malkin Athletic Center (MAC) showers—and this time, we sat in the front of the police car. The police log will never be the same. A minute-by-minute analysis: 8:14 p.m.: FM’s escort, officer Steven...