Word: detector
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...overdone roast can set it off. Easy to install, the bowl-shaped sensors can be simply plugged into house current. Even better, some are powered by batteries; these generally last a year and chirp insistently when they are running down. Smoke sleuths can be used in conjunction with heat detectors (cost: $100 plus for a complete system). Heat detectors are slower to sound a smoke alarm and are used mainly in closed areas such as basements and garages, where a quick heat buildup is likely. Says Fire Marshall Rex Jordon of Olympia, Wash.: "Heat 36 detectors are fine...
First, the sleep clinicians probe deeply into a patient's sleep habits−for example, by questioning his bed partner. They also video-tape his slumber behavior in special sleeping rooms, where patients spend the night hooked up to a polygraph, a lie-detector-like machine that monitors sleep-related physiological functions (breathing, muscle twitching, rapid eye movement...
...police decoys took lie detector tests administered by Dr. Richard Raskin of the University of Utah. Raskin--a big man in lie detection who was ready to testify for the defense in the Patty Hearst trial until her defense discovered California doesn't accept lie detector tests as evidence even from Raskin--found that both decoys were telling the truth about the Howe incident...
Several days later, venom once again spewed from Salt Lakers' television sets. Howe's attorney railed at those who had "hounded" Howe into taking a lie detector test, defiantly producing the results of a lie detector that said that Howe was telling the truth. Mrs. Howe quoted the scriptures and suggested that others look to their own homes before criticizing her husband...
...that a recording device had been discovered in the telephone between the beds of Cornelia and George in their master bedroom. Also, 200 five-minute tape recordings had been found by security officers in a safe used by Cornelia in the Governor's mansion in Montgomery. Though lie-detector tests were being administered by state police to members of the mansion's staff, apparently in an effort to find out who had leaked word of the taping, Wallace refused to say that Cornelia had planned the bugging. "This happened in my bedroom between me and my wife...