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Word: tracing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...equipment from two Harvard buildings: on Sunday, two $300 VCRs were taken from the Boylston Language Lab, and on Tuesday two microphones worth $500 were stolen from the Science Center. All of the stolen equipment had been previously engraved with Harvard identification numbers, so police may be able to trace the merchadise...

Author: By Peter J. Howe and The CRIMSON Staff, S | Title: Students Mugged on Campus | 11/8/1985 | See Source »

Gimotty said he has not excluded the possibility that the two gifts were sent by the same person, but that there is no way to trace their origins...

Author: By Kenneth A. Gerber, | Title: Freshman Gets Mystery Stereo | 11/5/1985 | See Source »

...dead of night over western North Carolina, a twin-engine Cessna plunges into a mountainside in the Nantahala National Forest. There is no trace of the pilot. Having bailed out 70 miles to the northwest over Tennessee, he now lies dead in a suburban Knoxville backyard, tangled in the reserve parachute that he apparently opened too late. Strapped to his body is a green Army duffel bag containing $15 million in cocaine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cocaine's Skydiving Smugglers | 10/21/1985 | See Source »

...volumes' worth of plays, novels, stories, poems, essays, diaries and letters, Meyer scatters all the fascinating and self-contradictory clues a reader could ask for. Strindberg emerges as the most deceptive of fanatics. He was "slim and elegant," fastidious in his dress and aristocratic in his bearing, with a "trace of shyness." The great intimidator confessed to being "afraid of the dark," as well as of "dogs, horses, strangers." He did not lack that rarest trait of the possessed, a sense of humor. He loved Dickens. He translated Mark Twain. When the mood was upon him, possibly after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Obsession Strindberg: a Biographyby Michael Meyer | 10/21/1985 | See Source »

This method has scored some dazzling successes over the years. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police, for example, used it to trace prints from a box of pizza to a professional hit man who had gunned down a target while posing as a delivery boy. But some police complain that their computers are too slow and too undependable for routine police work. A typical computer search of the files can take more than six seconds per fingerprint and often overlooks prints that are even slightly smudged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: Taking a Byte Out of Crime | 10/14/1985 | See Source »

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