Word: testing
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...three years ago that members of Congress first asked then Secretary of State Henry Kissinger if he could report on the condition of human rights in countries that receive U.S. aid. Kissinger ran a test inside the State Department, took one horrified look at the findings and then told Congress that the idea was impractical. Whereupon a law was passed making the report mandatory...
...Carter Administration's much-beleaguered tax-cutting plans survived perhaps their toughest test last week in the Senate Finance Committee and emerged reasonably intact. They were saved not by the President but by Committee Chairman Russell Long of Louisiana, who drew on all his parliamentary skill. Fresh from a midweek lunch of bacon-and-tomato sandwiches with Carter at the White House, Long trotted Council of Economic Advisers Chairman Charles Schultze before the committee for an unusual second appearance to argue for the Administration's $50 tax rebate. In the end, the committee voted to keep the rebate...
...bolster faith in science or Government. Wrote Lexie Harrington to the Portland Oregonian: "The scientists subject these animals to massive megadoses of the substance in question, which would kill an elephant, and then triumphantly -almost gleefully-announce that they have discovered cancer or other ailments developing in the test victims." Representative Andrew Jacobs Jr., an Indiana Democrat, sarcastically introduced a bill that would allow sales of saccharin-sweetened products under the label, "Warning: the Canadians have determined that saccharin is dangerous to your rats' health...
...mutual willingness on the part of the Soviet Union and the United States to make together concessions that will increase the security of each. The Soviets claim that they are willing and eager to conclude new SALT negotiations. The time has come for the United States to test their good faith...
...Last week the Pennsylvania Supreme Court disagreed with Nash, arguing that "his certainty is not shared by all commentators and scientists in the field." Unlike fingerprints, the court noted, spectrograms may vary according to such things as the speaker's health or age. And like a lie detector test there is a risk that the jury will give too much weight to such testimony. Though top courts in two states admit voiceprints as evidence, the court decided that Pennsylvania would not join them until there was "general acceptance" of the precision of voiceprints among experts. The court then ordered...