Word: monitorable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...need for an early decision on tuition charges demands this fiscal prescience. Most businesses budget on a "rolling quarterly basis," changing estimates and adjusting prices as they monitor the flow of cash. A university can't change the price of its product in the middle of the year, and so Faculty budget-makers are locked into an annual budget. They have to make crucial financial decisions based on fuzzy guesses about the inflation rate a year and a half from now. "I sit here in September with a budget of $50 million and I have very little control over that...
...Desrochers Monitor, Wash...
...environment. Beginning in 1966, Allied Chemical dumped tons of the banned pesticide Kepone into the James River for several years, ending fishing in the entire river and its tributaries all the way to the Chesapeake Bay. Abetted by government regulators lacking both the resources and the inclination to monitor it, the chemical industry's corner-cutting has had disastrous effects on the food supply of the United States...
...SALT II treaty debate. SALT'S opponents immediately linked the troops and the treaty, demanding to know how the Soviets could be trusted in an arms-control agreement when they made provocative military moves in the Caribbean. And how could the U.S. claim to be able to monitor weapons development deep inside the Soviet Union when it could get caught by surprise by a Soviet combat brigade 90 miles from Florida? Suddenly and improbably, what should have been a minor diplomatic squabble with the Soviets?one that could have been handled quietly and with minimum strain?had escalated into...
...military presence in Cuba over the past several years or of a Soviet military base." But Stone's pressure prompted the Administration to launch an extensive review of Cuban affairs. In his letter, Vance assured Stone that Carter had "directed that we give increased attention to the situation and monitor it closely. This is being done...