Word: testing
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Griffin locked horns with fellow left-hander Paul McOsker in a pitcher's duel that eventually turned out to be a test of endurance. McOsker finally succumbed in the tenth with the game still tied after giving up only eight hits, and gave way to Ron Stewart, who was tagged with his second loss of the year, while Griffin went...
Because it is estimated that only 10 per cent of the marijuana in Massachusetts is from Mexico, the Massachusetts Public Health Department will test for paraquat in marijuana throughout Massachusetts to determine whether the existence of the chemical warrants a state-wide testing program, Knox said...
...Cambridge police will test for paraquat content in the marijuana it has confiscated from people in this area when it is granted permission by the District Attorney, Robert Healy, assistant city manager, said yesterday...
...wartime situations were all the rage. The generals and admirals and Cabinet members would huddle together with groups of high-power academics--McGeorge Bundy, former dean of the Faculty here, always comes to mind as the prime example--and then they would all play high-voltage computer games to test out any theories they had managed to devise. But then one day, some technicians fed in the wrong numbers somewhere, and what came out of the computer was the ten years' agony called Vietnam--and so the computers and the outside experts fell out of favor for a few years...
Because state officials estimated that only 20 per cent of the marijuana in the Commonwealth is from Mexico, where the paraquat spraying occurs, the state will test for the presence of the herbicide in marijuana confiscated throughout the Commonwealth, in order to decide whether a larger paraquat testing program is necessary. Cambridge should be commended for having foresight and common sense in trying to initiate the testing program, which will occur in city police labs if and when the state approves the project...