Word: monitor
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...country had partly exempted itself from the CITES treaty in order to maintain imports of 14 endangered species, more than any other nation. Since then, Japan has reduced this number to eleven by agreeing to ban trade in the green sea turtle, musk deer and desert monitor lizard...
...anything will hold back progress, it will be Japan's lack of environmental activists and experts. Only about 15,000 Japanese -- most of them bird watchers -- belong to conservation groups, and the country does not have an extensive network of environmentalists, like those who monitor policies in the U.S. and Western Europe. The government's foreign aid programs, which can have a major effect on the global environment, are administered by roughly the same number of people who ran them when they were giving out one-tenth as much money...
...secret device to monitor the time of alarms. If a Marine let someone into the PCC and lied about the time of the CIA alarm, several sources say, this recording device would have exposed...
While scientists cannot monitor these waves directly, they can see the effects on the solar surface. "On reaching the surface," explains Juri Toomre, an astrophysicist at the University of Colorado, "the waves cause the gases there to move up and down" -- oscillations that astronomers can measure. To date, they have discovered millions of different oscillations, up- and-down motions with cycles ranging from 2 1/2 to 13 minutes. Some are caused by seismic waves confined to a zigzag path near the surface, others by waves that plunge as far as four-fifths the distance to the solar center before being...
...this time. Neither the flag nor the returns. "That flag decision," allowed political analyst Horace Busby, "shows that old Mr. Dooley ((Finley Peter Dunne's fictional Chicago bartender)) sometimes didn't know what he was talking about. This Supreme Court must not even read the newspapers." Busby plans to monitor the July 4th festivities across the nation. If the flag burners come out in force, there could be quite a political ruckus and possibly a constitutional amendment in less time than it takes to sing The Star-Spangled Banner...