Word: tarot
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...author of A Tremor in the Blood, says the tests are accurate only two-thirds of the time and are far more likely to be unreliable for a subject who is telling the truth. "They have no more place in the courts or in business than a psychic or tarot cards," he says. Congress has ordered the Office of Technology Assessment to make a study of polygraph reliability and has placed a moratorium on the use of lie detectors by the Defense Department until the study is completed. Polygraph tests are generally not admissible as evidence in federal courts...
When not embracing. Dan and Francine play tarot or talk about China, about Francine's Chinese roommate, who would have nightmares when left alone overnight. Eddy tells me about West Germany, about the East German soldiers woken to drill for attack every night until they say, "I wish we could wipe them out so we could get some sleep." We place bets on whether the Chinese scientist traveling with his colleagues to a conference in Yugoslavia will change out of his pajamas before we reach Moscow...
...Rudi Foundation, a Lincoln, Nebraska based organization that subsidizes the study of the human mind through its sales of oriental rugs, making it a sort of fringe Ford Foundation Before Doubleday signed up Wilber, his book could only be found in stores that also sold incense and Tarot cards...