Word: undergo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...moment of sexual gratification, the script is changed so that something awful happens. Statistics show that 78% of those who complete the program at Western State have not so far committed other sex crimes. At the state prison in Avenel, N.J., a facility built solely for sex offenders, prisoners undergo fantasy reconditioning, masturbating for about an hour, until it is physically painful, to deviant fantasies...
...Administration officials take lie-detector tests, they will undergo an experience familiar to accused criminals, suspected leakers and candidates for sensitive jobs both inside and outside Government. The subject is hooked up to the machine with rubber belts placed across the stomach and chest, electrodes attached to the fingertips and a blood-pressure cuff wrapped around the arm. The sensors measure pulse rate, blood pressure, breathing and perspiration as the subject answers a series of yes-or-no questions. Explains Sergeant Michael McFadden of the Washington police department: "There's always a fear attached when somebody lies, and that...
...asked White House Counsel Fred Fielding to determine if there are any legal obstacles to their use on senior staff members. Fielding concluded that there were none. Baker subsequently made it clear last week, by letting the word leak out through associates, that he was willing, even eager, to undergo the test. He has already been interviewed by the FBI twice, most recently for 90 minutes in his West Wing office two weeks ago. Baker is understood to have given the FBI his full recollection of the time and place that Casey supposedly handed him the campaign documents. Baker insists...
...order. But the killing is bound to have serious repercussions. Aquino, the youngest governor and then the youngest senator in Philippine history, was thrown into prison under sentence of death for "subversion" in 1972, shortly after mounting a strong bid for the presidency against Marcos. Released in 1980 to undergo heart bypass surgery in the U.S., he later held fellowships at Harvard and M.I.T. before deciding to return this summer...
...first child. The Fishers are carriers of Tay-Sachs disease, a fatal ailment that afflicts their two-year-old son. For both couples, the odds are one in four that any child they bear will be defective. When the two wives became pregnant earlier this year, they intended to undergo amniocentesis, a test to determine if the fetuses were normal. Each planned to abort...