Word: tracing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Through Interpol, police the world over can trace a Bombay jewel thief with a dozen aliases and passports, study the latest research on police use of helicopters, learn how Lebanon is persuading farmers to grow sunflowers instead of hashish-or call on the FBI's monumental files of 184 million fingerprints. By holding annual conventions on a different continent each year, Interpol unites the world's fuzz-Tokyo detectives, Canadian mounties, U.S. narcotics agents-for mutual education in everything from electronics to odonto-grams (tooth identification). In addition, Interpol organizes regular seminars on scientific crime detection, sends forgery...
...advocated a "systems analysis" of human behavior -- an approach including behavior -- an approach including both analysis of organic behavior and an attempt to trace the origins of genetic knowledge...
...wipe out the prostitution and gambling that have made "Steel City U.S.A."-as its boosters like to call it-synonymous with vice in a large section of the Midwest. "I hope to give the people of Gary an administration of which they can be proud," Hatcher says without a trace of braggadocio. "I'm going to be the best mayor Gary has ever...
...year-old U.S. Bureau of Drug Abuse Control and head of its St. Louis office. Disguised as truck drivers, Leap's D-men have bought illegal bennies time and again, but not just to nab roadside peddlers. They aim to buy supplies of bennies wholesale, and thus trace the black-market drugs back to their source...
...Trace of a Burr. A sprightly Scot who speaks with a trace of a burr, McCracken estimates that he has delivered more than 5,000 sermons since deciding to become a minister, at the age of 17, upon hearing a lecture by a visiting Congo missionary. McCracken, who held pastorates in Edinburgh and Glasgow and taught at Canada's McMaster University before coming to Riverside, firmly believes that "a theology that isn't preached has something lacking." He argues that the Biblical message has not lost its relevance and provides an antidote to what he calls...