Word: sniff
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Most of the search must be conducted on the ground. Minivans are rented at the local airport, the backseats removed and replaced with electronic detectors that can sniff the neutrons and gamma radiation a nuclear device might emit. The vans, however, are only good for use in large open areas like parking lots and highways. To search narrow streets and buildings, as many as 100 two-person teams, dressed as inconspicuously as possible, are sent on foot patrols. One team member carries a special radiation detector designed to be hidden in briefcases, student backpacks, laptop computer bags--even beer coolers...
Walking down the corridors, Becky and her male partner looked like the typical tourist couple on vacation, dressed in Bermuda shorts and T shirts, cameras slung over their necks. But hidden in Becky's suitcase was a sophisticated sodium iodide crystal detector to sniff minute amounts of gamma radiation from as far away as another room...
...education programs are included, Indian budget cuts will average just 8%. Gorton also maintains that Indian self-support may be well under way through activities such as "mining, fishing and gambling." Reminded that most tribes claimed to be not yet enriched through those avenues, he gives a disbelieving sniff. "Ah, they are people who have income," he says...
...Kids does-without hitting a movie about troubled teens in heat and on the rampage. Between frantically perfunctory bouts of sexmaking, the rich kids in the Spanish film Stories of the Kronen hang recklessly from a bridge over a busy highway. The teenage girls in the Thai film Daughters sniff glue as a break from their stealing and prostitution. In La Haine, denizens of the bleak projects outside Paris rip off Chinese grocers and face off in grudge matches with the police. For the drug-dealing Arab pre-teens in Bye-Bye, set in Marseilles, the only moral imperative...
...total of $18 million in illegal software as well as $1 million in cash. They had also arrested eight suspects, and are looking for the man they believe is the ringleader of the major Microsoft-bootlegging ring. If only the folks at Microsoft could train a dog to sniff floppy-disk residue on dollars...