Word: detector
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...quickly turned the dispute into an ideological confrontation with Chairman William Coors, 61, and his brother Joseph, 60, a well-known backer of the John Birch Society and other right-wing causes. The union's allies are particularly upset by the firm's practice of using lie-detector tests to probe into the lives of job applicants, and claim that Coors discriminates against minorities...
...series of affidavits collected by the union, striking employees charged that lie-detector tests used by the company to screen job applicants required them to answer such questions as: What are your sex preferences? How often do you change your underwear? Have you ever done anything with your wife that could be considered immoral? Are you a homosexual? Are you a Communist? The union maintains that these questions are invasions of privacy. Says Union Business Manager David Sickler: "When you get through being grilled on that lie detector, you feel dirty...
...simultaneous false fire alarms in Lamont Library yesterday sent 150 to 200 people out into the ten-degree weather after a smoke detector in the second-floor smoking room was triggered and someone pulled an alarm on the sixth floor...
Jane R. Morhardt, assistant to the Lamont librarian, said yesterday, "Apparently, someone put a cigarette under the smoke detector, setting it off, and then someone heard the warning and pulled the alarm on the sixth floor...
...There was a fair amount of smoke in the smoking room, but the detector may have been more sensitive than usual," Frank E. Lamentea, the library's assistant business manager, said yesterday...