Word: monitorable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their franchise exhilarating. "I've seen so many elections in other countries that you would think it would not be new for me," said Magazine Editor Jose Luis Gutierrez. "But it was still hard to believe that I was actually voting myself." Added a television executive: "When the monitor said vota, I don't know, I felt an almost sexual emotion. Forty years, forty years...
...memories were sometimes hard to still. In Paracuellos de Jarama, a small pueblo on the outskirts of Madrid that gained infamy during the civil war when Republican forces shot hundreds of Nationalist prisoners there, the local voting monitor politely ushered a trooper of the still feared Civil Guard out of the schoolroom polling station. "He has a gun, and he does not belong here," said one of the party observers behind...
...report notes that some countries have acted unilaterally to lessen the environmental ills that plague them. For example, it commends the U.S. for its actions to discourage use of fluorocarbons and to monitor workers' exposure to cancer-causing substances; it praises Pakistan for a massive reforestation program aimed at preventing soil erosion and the silting of dams and rivers. But it also warns that these unilateral moves are not enough to remove the threats to man's well-being and calls for international collaboration "on a scale not seen so far in the history of mankind" to save...
...statement expressed appreciation for the Detroit meeting and a willingness to at least think about its long list of recommendations. Moreover, a group of 20 Call to Action enthusiasts, led by Newark's Archbishop Peter Gerety, put through an amendment that sets up a special committee to monitor the handling of the Detroit proposals over the next five years...
...residents do monitor energy costs carefully. Advertising Salesman Charles McKeown listened approvingly to Carter's speech last week. Says he: "We have been very cognizant of saving energy. We put up awnings, caulked our windows and used exhaust fans instead of air conditioning last summer when the temperature was below 78°. We could consider solar energy. The tax incentive rang noisy bells in our heads-we are being clobbered on taxes." Mrs. Gibson plans to respond to Carter's challenge by calling in an architect to consult on insulation and on the hot water supply...