Word: testing
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Moore's typically rambling discourse with O'Shea was vague. She said she had been "hassled by the system," and added: "I'm going to "see if the system works equally for the left as well as the right. I'm going to Stanford to test it." O'Shea was puzzled by the "system" reference, but mention of Stanford meant much. That was where President Ford was to speak on the following day. "A red light went on in my head," O'Shea recalled later. The bulb glowed more brightly when she said, "I'm going to ask you something...
There are few basic requirements for the job. Applicants?there are now a few women among them?must be 21, graduates of a four-year institution and in excellent physical condition. Aspirants take the Treasury law enforcement entrance examinations, which test powers of observation along with basic knowledge. The highest scorers are tapped by the Service as vacancies occur and start at salaries ranging from $8,500 to $10,520 a year, depending on their prior experience. Recruits take a basic two-month course in criminology, surveillance and firearms use at a former military camp in Georgia. Next come another...
According to the Crimson coach, the real test today will be how Harvard's defense handles the Terrier passing game. In addition to Holy Cross's 63-yard scoring pass last week, Restic is concerned about Harvard's non-existent pass rush...
...late morning when four men in their twenties marched into the eight-story building housing the embassy, in the fashionable Salamanca section of Madrid. Carrying pistols, they burst into the embassy on the second floor. Madrid police wisely made no attempt to test the terrorists' threat to kill the three men they had seized as hostages: Ambassador Ghaffar, the press attaché Mohammed Aziti and the consul. The terrorists claimed to belong to a Martyred Abdel Khader Husseini Group, named after a Palestine liberation fighter. The group is thought to be composed of militants from the "rejection front," which...
...given no marijuana for eleven days before their testosterone levels were measured. Only then were they allowed to smoke pot. Each man was given a daily average of five marijuana cigarettes containing a known quantity of pot's active ingredient and monitored closely throughout the three-month test...