Word: monitorable
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Good intelligence has made it possible to cooperate with Russia to contain the arms race. Mutual spying by satellite enables the U.S. and the Soviet Union to monitor the weaponry in each country and provide some prospect that the other side is not cheating. Says a State Department official: "The SALT initiatives would not have been possible without intelligence...
...says, "have tracked me down." Earlier: "The physical illness is only an overflow of the spiritual illness." Kafka is both physically and metaphysically in touch with death, as if some thin, tight wire were strung from here to there, and made lovely, disturbing sounds. It is distressing to monitor his illness for so long. One knows not only that Kafka's death must arrive in 1924, but also what will come of his larger presentiments: Kafka's three sisters will all die in concentration camps, the Nazis' extension of what Kafka imagined...
...Soviets blockaded the city, and four years later became the first postwar Ambassador to Japan, helping negotiate an end to the Korean War. Although Murphy retired in 1959, he continued to advise Presidents, and in 1976 was named by Gerald Ford to head the Board of Intelligence Oversight, a monitor...
...income. The Marianas also eagerly accept all kinds of federal aid, including free medical care and bulk food grants of commodities like wheat. "It's sort of a welfare state," says silvery Erwin Can-ham, the Marianas' resident commissioner and a former editor of the Christian Science Monitor, who will return to the U.S. later this month. "If I tried to eliminate the free surplus commodities, I'd have a lynch mob down here...
...sign such a peace agreement and hope to keep his stature as a leader within the Arab world. In Cairo, however, some diplomats last week were speculating about the prospect of a more subtle scenario for either the Cairo meeting or Geneva. Egypt-with the U.S. as watchful monitor-would negotiate an overall peace with Israel on behalf of all the confrontation powers. Once a draft was agreed upon, Sadat would present it to an Arab summit. If they agreed, all would be well. If they did not-so goes the theory-Sadat might then sign the document by himself...