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Word: tested (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...solve the problem. Starting next summer, the FAA will receive five new devices developed by San Diego-based Science Applications International Corp. for screening checked luggage. The machine bombards luggage with neutrons that interact with the nitrogen in explosives, touching off a characteristic pattern of gamma rays. In tests conducted last summer at Los Angeles and San Francisco airports, the devices spotted more than 95% of suitcases containing test samples of explosive materials. But because they employ dangerous radiation, the machines, which cost as much as $1 million each, cannot be used on passengers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Deceptive Killer | 1/9/1989 | See Source »

...with the system designed by Thermedics in Woburn, Mass. It uses jets of warm air to collect vapors given off by either luggage or the clothing of passengers, who would be required to step into a three- sided booth. The vapors are then subjected to six different computerized chemical tests that together take about 25 seconds. In a five-day trial run at Boston's Logan Airport last October, the system, which would cost roughly $250,000, nabbed 50 out of 50 test samples sent through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Deceptive Killer | 1/9/1989 | See Source »

Morton Downey Jr. has turned foul temper into a TV style. Geraldo Rivera continues to test the bounds of tawdry sensationalism. Phil, Oprah and Sally Jessy race to outdo one another in pursuit of the odd, the aberrant and the kinky. But something even more bizarre and audacious is about to appear on the talk-show scene. Make way for . . . the nice guys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: And Now, Nice-Guy Talk Hosts | 1/9/1989 | See Source »

...Joint Council on Economic Education, which found that only one out of three high school students in its 41-state poll could define such basic concepts as profit and the law of supply and demand. The 8,205 eleventh- and twelfth-graders who took the 40-minute multiple-choice test correctly answered less than 40% of the 46 questions. Declared William Walstad, a co-author of the study: "Our schools are producing a nation of economic illiterates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEACHING: Why Johnny Can't Budget | 1/9/1989 | See Source »

...general manager of Osage Municipal Utilities. Looking back to 1972, when he took over the utility company, Birdsall recalls, "That's about the time OPEC reared its ugly head. We had to do something." Birdsall preached conservation door to door, offering to give every building a free thermogram, a test that pinpoints places where the most heat is escaping. More than half the town's property owners accepted the offer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Planet Of The Year: The Good News: Osage, Iowa, Counts Kilowatts | 1/2/1989 | See Source »

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