Word: monitorable
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...House committee has been less effective than the Senate's. True enough, it has learned a good deal about the sub rosa financing arrangements enjoyed by intelligence agencies: that the General Accounting Office, which is supposed to monitor federal spending, keeps its hands off the CIA; the CIA alumni in the Office of Management and Budget handle the purse strings of their alma mater...
...Missions. By one estimate, the NSA spends $1.2 billion a year and employs 25,000 people, compared with the CIA's $750 million and 16,500 workers. At its Fort Meade, Md., headquarters, variously known as "Disneyland" and "the Puzzle Palace," the NSA labors in extraordinary anonymity to monitor communications throughout the world and then decipher the coded messages. In that task it is reputed to employ everything from the world's largest bank of computers to blind people whose acute hearing can pick up signals on tapes that sighted people might miss...
...minute nationwide radio and television address, he called for an 8% ceiling on wage increases and a freeze on nearly all prices-they will be permitted to rise only enough to cover increased production costs. To enforce these restraints, an 18-member review board will be created; it will monitor 1,500 companies and large industrial and public-employee unions, and will have the power to go to court to demand fines and even prison terms for offending corporate and union officials. For political reasons, the Prime Minister refused to use the word controls; he labeled his plan an "attack...
...mood of diplomatic euphoria, Israeli and United Nations officials gathered in Jerusalem last Friday afternoon. Word flashed from Washington that Congress had finally approved a resolution under which 200 U.S. technicians will be sent to Sinai to monitor the Egyptian-Israeli accord. As a result, Israeli representatives, who had previously only initialed the interim agreements, were now prepared to sign them formally. After doing so, Israel's Foreign Ministry Director Avraham Kidron exchanged champagne toasts with the U.N. observers and glanced at his watch. In ten minutes, Kidron announced confidently, Israeli officials at Ras Sudr, on the northern...
...published was to preserve the principle of confidentiality in international negotiations. On the strength of the official publication and the pledge that no other promises were still secret, Congress was satisfied enough to move toward a vote to ratify the assignment of 200 electronics technicians to the Sinai to monitor the Egyptian-Israeli truce there. A House vote of approval is expected this week; the Senate vote will follow. Oil experts from Egypt are then set to move into the Sinai oilfields, later than the original Oct. 5 date specified in the Kissinger negotiations but not too late to imperil...