Word: monitor
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Even these measures fall short of guaranteeing privacy. In recent months, the Reagan Administration made several attempts to monitor the use of public data bases as part of an effort aimed at controlling access to unclassified but "sensitive" information. This controversial policy, initiated by former National Security Adviser John Poindexter, was hastily withdrawn two weeks ago. It would have given the Government "Big Brother control over all the computer systems in the country," according to Democratic Congressman Jack Brooks of Texas, who headed a committee investigating the matter...
...Hahn's side portray her as a devout follower of Bakker's who was spiritually and emotionally "shattered" by the tryst. Hahn told her pastor, the Rev. Gene Profeta, about the incident. Profeta consulted his friend Paul R. Roper, a business consultant in Anaheim, Calif., and self-appointed monitor of clergy skulduggery. John Stewart, a Christian broadcaster and teacher at ! the Simon Greenleaf School of Law in California, became Roper's partner in the project. Hahn told Roper that Bakker had pressured her into sex. Roper says, "She was overwhelmed by being in the presence of this man ((Bakker...
...Commandment for primary campaigns: Thou shalt not speak ill of another Republican. Democratic National Chairman Paul Kirk is trying to go Reagan one better. Bewailing the "self-inflicted wounds" of the party's 1980 and '84 campaigns, Kirk last week appointed a task force of six Democratic seniors to monitor what the '88 hopefuls say about one another. Every month Kirk will meet with representatives of each candidate and try to persuade them to cut out the rough stuff. The party elders, said Kirk, will "publicly bring political pressure to bear" on any candidate who refuses to be civil...
...first glance the symbolism is painfully apparent. On the set of his 37th feature film, in a makeshift studio 35 miles north of Los Angeles and a world away from Hollywood, the 80-year-old director sits in a chair, watching the action on a closed-circuit television monitor and rumbling orders into a microphone. The jauntiness of his warm-up suit is belied by the clear plastic tube that runs from his nose, behind his ears, down his chest and along his leg to an oxygen tank, a last-ditch defense against the emphysema that has plagued...
Additionally, the extra memory is helpful for running Switcher, a program that allows several different software packages to run at the same time. A ramdisk can also take advantage of the increased memory. Anyone requiring a color monitor or wanting to run MS-DOS programs will need to shell out the additional dollars...