Word: monitorable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...school committee was also taken to task last week by the six-member U.S. Civil Rights Commission, which has a congressional mandate to monitor the enforcement of civil rights laws. In a 223-page study of the city's school crisis, the commission bluntly accused the committee of a "deliberate policy of minimal compliance" with desegregation orders and urged Garrity to remove its authority over Boston's schools if the foot dragging continues. The commission also chided President Ford for his "equivocal support" of Garrity's court order last year...
...only under extreme stress. As early as 1910, Johns Hopkins Geologist Harry Reid suggested that it should be possible to tell when and where quakes were likely to occur by keeping close tab on the buildup of stresses along a fault. But the knowledge, instruments and funds necessary to monitor many miles of fault line and interpret any findings simply did not exist. Earthquake prediction did not draw much attention until 1949, when a devastating quake struck the Garm region of Siberia, causing an avalanche that buried the village of Khait and killed 12,000 people. Stunned by the disaster...
...talked to one another, sometimes napping fitfully by day, sleeping little at night. Young Adam, described as especially fond of his brother, tried to entice others into Monopoly games to pass the anguished hours. A score of FBI agents arrived at the estate to advise the family and monitor events. Up to 50 reporters and photographers kept vigil at the gates. Helicopters came and went, each flight sending rumors through the ranks of the watching press...
...papers forthwith received telephone calls from the Wall Street Journal, the Christian Science Monitor, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED and other publications. If the inquisitors had been familiar with the weeklies, they would have known that the letter, like much else that appears in the papers, was a fake. The missive was the handiwork of Dan Rattiner, 35, who publishes the six summer papers and two others (a total of 64,000 giveaway copies a week) and has a good time doing...
...undertake "full responsibility for reports in regard to these guidelines," but extracted no explicit promise to submit to them. That left the press wondering whether the government had in effect backed down. Journalists from several Western news organizations, including CBS, the New York Times and the Christian Science Monitor, felt that the pledge was now "innocuous" and agreed to sign -though with some misgivings. Interpreting it differently, journalists from Newsweek and the London Times were among those who rejected the document. TIME Correspondent David Aikman refused to sign the pledge and planned to leave India voluntarily. His conclusion: the government...