Word: monitorable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...closed-circuit cameras monitor a pair of third-floor corridors, relaying live images onto television screens watched by a single guard. Depending on the success of the two cameras, University and museum officials will consider the installation of a more extensive closed-circuit system, Slive said...
Ford paid relatively less attention to his Council on Wage and Price Stability, which will monitor increases in those crucial areas. The council has no enforcement powers, but Ford did appoint as executive director a strong advocate of Washington jawboning. He is Albert E. Rees, a Princeton economist and a Democrat. Rees shares Ford's adamant stand against imposing mandatory wage and price controls...
...they monitor the stresses inexorably building up in the earth along the San Andreas Fault, seismologists agree that California could at almost any time suffer another major earthquake, perhaps even more serious than San Francisco's 1906 disaster. Scientists hesitate to predict exactly when or where the big quake will come, but that has not deterred two young astronomers, John Gribbin and Stephen Plagemann. In a new book, The Jupiter Effect (Walker; $7.95), which has generally been treated seriously by the press and the networks, they prophesy that a major quake will devastate the Los Angeles area...
...Haig to hear Haldeman out but that he would not talk to Haldeman. Haig hurried to the office of James St. Clair, at the tune Nixon's chief Watergate defense attorney. St. Clair advised that any citizen had the right to appeal for clemency. Haig asked St. Clair to monitor the conversation. Haldeman's pitch was brief, citing the difficulty of getting a fair trial. There was no threat of blackmail, although given the circumstances, the approach could have seemed ominous to Nixon...
...whites threw stones and bottles at two yellow buses that carried the 56 black students who showed up for opening day. As school was dismissed that afternoon, the whites brandished lengths of rubber hose and clubs and again threw bottles at the buses. Nine black students and a bus monitor were slightly injured by shattering glass. At the 79 other schools that were desegregated, there was no violence...