Word: monitorable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spiritual slum is the ultimate tragedy. The victimizer is responsible for us being down, but the victim is responsible for us getting up." Jackson has called for neighborhood volunteers to replace police in patrolling ghetto schools and street corners, has launched a drive for black parents to monitor strictly their children's homework and schooling, and has urged that voter registration cards be handed to each high school graduate along with a diploma. Says he: "Nobody will save us from...
...Helsinki accord was a complex compromise between the Soviet desire for recognition of its hegemony in Eastern Europe and Western desire for an international codification of human rights among other things). How to monitor these agreements was the issue at Belgrade, and to the extent that conferences bring victories, the West won on most counts-if only because the Soviets never made their threatened all-out stand against the U.S. human rights campaign...
...Witteveen, in about that order. The Fund is a giant institution: 131 member countries, substantially all of the non-Communist world; 20 executive directors representing geographic blocs; a Washington headquarters outfitted with teak-paneled walls and leather-tufted elevators. Yet for almost three decades, it was content to monitor the system of fixed exchange rates of member countries. Among other things, it put up short-term cash that nations could use to buy or sell their own currencies, keeping the values within the narrow band specified by IMF rules, and gave its approval-usually grudgingly-for devaluations or upward revaluations...
...auto manufacturers in 1965." To increase the pressure, a Nader group, Public Citizen Inc., last week shipped copies of a pamphlet entitled 10 Ways to Take On Your Local Bar Association to 50 consumer groups across the nation. The broadside urges formation of local watchdog units to monitor bar regulations, publication of legal directories with fee information, pressure on law firms for more pro bono publico work, and demands for lay voices in the disciplining of lawyers...
...Angeles, the newest place is Dillon's, which has four floors (one loud); on each, patrons can monitor the action elsewhere on closed-circuit TV. The most elegant disco is still 4½-year-old Pip's, whose members are hand-picked by the board of directors (membership costs $1,000, plus $30 monthly dues). We live in a status world, and Pip's is status," says Stan Herman, a Beverly Hills realtor who founded the place with Playboy Publisher Hugh Hefner. Couples who join sign contracts providing for a second membership at the price...