Word: hidden
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most memorable pieces, Shinkaretsky posed as a worker in a sausage factory. Passing several indifferent guards, he walked out the factory gate and headed toward a hidden television camera. Pulling a large ham from under his coat, he told viewers, "You see how easy it is to steal here." After the report was aired, the factory tightened security...
...next liftoff should come in April, when the shuttle Atlantis is scheduled to send a craft called Magellan on its way to Venus. The space probe will begin orbiting the planet next year, using radar to map its cloud-hidden surface. The best maps now in existence, compiled by Soviet spacecraft, show features as small as a quarter-mile across, but Magellan is expected to do about ten times as well...
Invisible behind the plethora of pages in the OED2 are hidden commands heralding an advance that will revolutionize the way it -- and perhaps all reference books -- is used in the future. Amazingly, this entire venture was conceived and completed within a span of seven years. A. Walton Litz, a professor of English at Princeton and a member of the Oxford University Press advisory council, says, "I've never been associated with a project, I've never even heard of a project, that was so incredibly complicated and that met every deadline." Some of this speed and success can be attributed...
Laboratory tests to detect the hidden hazards are performed on only a tiny percentage of all animals. The problem is most evident in poultry. Studies have indicated that up to one-third of chickens sold to consumers are tainted with salmonella bacteria that can cause food poisoning if the birds are not properly cooked. Yet only 0.5% of chickens are rejected by inspectors. Some of the contamination apparently occurs right under the eye of inspectors, who observe each chicken on the production line for one to three seconds. High- speed eviscerating machines that rip out intestines sometimes spew feces...
...fated flight revived when London's Daily Mail obtained a memo from the British Ministry of Transport dated Dec. 19. The alert warned British airlines and airports and some foreign carriers of a new type of terrorist bomb, packed with the Czechoslovak-made explosive Semtex, that could be hidden in a radio-cassette player. The memo contained an elaborate list of clues for detecting such devices, including the failure of the cassette player to function normally and more wiring than usual for a portable player. "Its sophistication, and the effort taken to conceal it," said the warning, "suggest it could...