Word: monitor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What we need is a device to enable the person on hold to silently monitor the other caller's conversation...
Reacting to complaints that prefects were ineffective and unmonitored, program organizers instituted this fall regular meetings among prefects and created "Yard Captains" to monitor the activities of prefects...
...course, professional sports leagues should be supervised accordingly. Their books should be open to public scrutiny, and regulatory commissions should closely monitor the behavior of the leagues as a whole and the individual teams within them...
...which products should be restricted through the Paris-based Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Export Controls (COCOM). But as new items proliferate, regulatory agencies face what one observer calls a "world of grays," a mass of technical detail required for every licensing decision. Officials are finding it harder to monitor thousands of proscribed exports, as the line between military and civilian products becomes blurred and the potential uses of new products keep changing...
...report does not cite specific ways in which Reagan failed to uphold the law. But it raps him for allowing the National Security Council rather than the CIA to conduct covert operations and then failing to monitor the activity closely to see that it was kept within the boundaries of the law. NSC staff members were "out of control," the report says, with Oliver North and Poindexter "privatizing" foreign policy and allowing retired Air Force Major General Richard Secord and his business partner, Albert Hakim, to handle American negotiations with Iran and control huge sums of money from the transactions...