Word: detectors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ronald Reagan has tried several times to authorize wide use of lie-detector tests but on each occasion has backed down in the face of opposition from Congress or his own Administration. Confronted by the need to police some 100,000 Government employees and contractors who have access to ultrasecret national security information, the President is trying once again. The Los Angeles Times disclosed that Reagan had signed a national security directive on Nov. 1 providing for the polygraphing of federal contractors and employees, including Cabinet members...
FROM THE MOMENT I walked up to the counter, I had a deceptively long streak of good luck. I managed to snag a seat on an earlier flight, and when I walked through security, I did not have my usual experience of tripping the metal detector ten times straight and drawing a crowd of police before someone decided the machine was broken. As if this wasn't good enough, the holiday rush only delayed my flight 30 minutes, and I had a window seat a good six rows away from the smoking section...
...opposing beams, consisting of closely packed bunches of about 10 billion protons each, would complete about 3,000 laps a second. In four to six places around the ring, the beams would intersect, producing up to 100 million collisions a second. At each collision site, a highly sophisticated detector at least three stories high would be needed to sense and record the impacts, telltale debris and any newly created particles...
...Coors boycott was begun in 1977 after the Adolph Coors Brewery Company refused to bargain with its workers over issues such as forced lie detector tests, compulsory physical examinations and search and seizure of employees' private property by Coors's private police force. Coors has been cited by the National Labor Relations Board for a number of instances of illegal harrassment of employees and continues to harrass and dismiss employees who support unionization. The company has broken 19 unions in the last 20 years. In addition Coors has been implicated in hazardous waste dumping and in unfair employment practices...
Those competing values are increasingly set against each other as Americans face more and more screening designed to combat drugs, drunk driving, terrorism, on-the-job thievery and, most recently, AIDS. Major league baseball players last month temporarily deflected a push for voluntary drug testing. The metal detectors familiar at airports are now found at many government buildings. In the first six months after the Dade County courthouse in Miami installed a detector last year, an amazing 3,000 weapons were discovered. Peter Bensinger, former administrator of the federal Drug Enforcement Agency, estimates that about one-quarter of FORTUNE...