Word: detector
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Coors during the 60s and 70s, says that employees were subjected to polygraph tests before being hired and while employed. In sworn affidavits before the House subcommittee on Labor-Management Relations, Sickler and three other former Coors employees stated that they were asked personal questions during their preemployment lie detector sessions, including questions such as "What is your sex preference?," "Are you a Communist?," and "Have you ever smoked marijuana...
William Coors maintains that the lie detector tests only occurred before an employee was hired and that they never asked any questions about sexual or political practices. And, he suggests that the whole point is currently moot because Coors no longer asks any potential employees to take polygraph tests. Instead, all prospective Coors employees are asked to take a urinalysis test...
...leading contenders were Rubbia and his colleagues, who had built a $20 million particle detector called UA1 to be used with the SPS accelerator, and a second team of physicists at CERN using a detector known as UA2. Rubbia drove the UA1 team unmercifully, Taubes writes, then unofficially spread the news of a discovery before performing the sort of rigorous analysis that would confirm it. This maneuver would effectively pre-empt any claim by the UA2 group, which was proceeding with a more careful proof before going public. Says Physicist Bernard Sadoulet, a member of the UA1 team...
...drug tests, and now Reagan wants the federal government--the nation's largest employer--to get into the act. Attorney General Edwin Meese III sees nothing wrong with such testing. And Secretary of State George Shultz, who last year said he would resign if forced to take a lie-detector test, also had no qualms about taking a drug test...
...drug testing has become a new campaign fad. In Kentucky, Republican Congressional Candidate Jim Polley challenged Incumbent Chris Perkins to meet him at a hospital for a urinating match. Perkins did not show up, but Polley gave his sample anyway. Perkins facetiously countered with a challenge to take lie-detector tests, AIDS tests and chest X rays. Other candidates publicly joining in include Republican Congressman Thomas Kindness of Ohio, who is running against Senator John Glenn, and Democratic Senator Alan Dixon of Illinois...