Word: shama
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...protect their profit margins, many hard-hit companies have resorted to routine polygraph screening of workers and job applicants. But the scientific validity of these devices has never been proved, and the tests have sometimes caused harm to people who are falsely implicated. Such is the case of Shama Holleman, a college student who took a job in 1987 as a part-time cashier for Alexander's department-store chain in New York City. After a month as a model employee, she was fired because a polygraph test indicated that she might be a drug dealer and might have served...