Word: detectors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...another incident yesterday, firefighters responded to a false alarm at Adams. A maintenance worker who refused to be identified speculated that fumes from a kitchen exhaust fan could have triggered a smoke detector...
...pipe and a chunk of plate steel left in fanciful cookie-cutter shapes by a plasma-arc cutter. Two men are momentarily baffled by a machined piece. "I don't know what they could have meant to do with this," says one. "It could have been a detector, something to let low-energy particles through...
...payroll," said Prosecutor Laura Brevetti in her opening statement, "is the $64,000 question" in the Sanzo-Petito trial. Her key witness: a pseudonymous "Mr. J.H.," who has been a federal informer since 1973 and who, unlike most such federal witnesses, took and passed an FBI lie detector test administered two weeks...
...fountain may also include an automatic wind detector which, in high winds, will lower the height of the mist, Oommen said...
...detectors also came under heavy fire. John H. Gibbons, director of the Office of Technology Assessment, said of polygraphs, "The instrument cannot detect deception. It's more of a fear detector than a lie detector." Making a similar point with flair, Dr. John F. Beary, former high health official in the Defense Department, said he had a way to determine guilt that was cheaper than a lie detector and almost as reliable, since "it's right 50% of the time." He held up a coin...