Word: monitor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they would bind Kabul and Islamabad to "noninterference and nonintervention" in each other's affairs, provide for the voluntary return of Afghan refugees, name the U.S. and Soviet Union co-guarantors, and stipulate a Soviet withdrawal within nine months. In a separate memorandum, the United Nations will agree to monitor compliance. At week's end translators were busy turning out copies of the 40-page document in Urdu for the Pakistanis and Pashto for the Afghans, as well as Russian and English...
Kodak last week showed off its invention, which accepts negatives much the way automated tellers digest bank cards. While viewing the film's positive image on a 13-in. color monitor, consumers can crop the photo, zoom in or out and adjust its angle. The quick prints, in 5 by 7, 8 by 10 or 11 by 14 size, are expected to be slightly more expensive than those produced from negatives left at the photo shop...
...same time, advances in medical technology have dramatically increased nurses' responsibilities. Consider the neurological intensive-care unit of Chicago's Cook County Hospital. Cocooned in a bewildering array of intravenous lines, tubes and machines, each patient is desperately ill; 30 nurses are required to monitor and care properly for a group of nine patients around the clock. "Things can change rapidly," explains Mary O'Flaherty, the unit's nurse coordinator. "One moment a patient's intracranial pressures, blood pressure and cerebral-profusion pressure can be fine. The next moment you can start hearing bells...
Harvard does have a centralized affirmativeaction machinery in place to monitor and work tocorrect the numbers of women and minoritiesfaculty members. The administration "establishesguidelines and practices in search and recruitmentprocesses that ensure steps are taken to cast anet for women and minorities," says Associate Deanfor Academic Planning Phyllis Keller, FAS's equalemployment opportunity officer...
Some volunteers will monitor the Essex county courts, making sure that they comply with state legislation requiring the presence of interpretors in court when the defendant cannot speak English, said Attorney Ernest Winsor '58, who works at the Massachusetts Law Reform Institute. The law was drafted by the Institute and passed...