Word: monitorable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rely most heavily for advice upon Press Secretary Ron Ziegler, the man who lost his standing with newsmen by repeatedly "misspeaking" the facts about Watergate. Ziegler's rise has baffled most of Nixon's senior aides and horrified Senator Barry Goldwater, who told the Christian Science Monitor last month: "I just can't believe that he would listen to Ziegler. That in my opinion would be something disastrous. Nothing personal, but Ziegler doesn't understand politics...
College Credit. While any reader can simply monitor the newspaper course, some 4,000 persons have elected to receive college credit for it. They have registered with one of the 182 colleges and universities affiliated with the program and paid fees ranging from $35 to $45. That entitles them to participate in two discussion classes supervised by a college instructor and to take two tests, one at mid-term and the other at the conclusion of the 20-week course. For an additional $10, credit students receive a kit that includes a record, 50 additional lectures and articles, a study...
...same time that the doctors were receiving funding support for their project, they also began to face determined opposition. A psychiatrist, Peter Broggin, began a one-man campaign against psychosurgery in 1971. Ralph Nader's raiders began to monitor the project. As the national controversy increased, Dr. David Allen at Boston City Hospital set up a review committee in September 1972 composed of professionals in many fields which acted as an advocate for the patient, ensuring that he had full knowledge and was giving full consent. State Senator Chester Atkins (D-Concord) introduced a bill into the legislature December...
...modernized the plant and produced a greyhound gold mine. In 1972 the track handled $63 million in bets (8% went to management) in a 16-week meeting. Every night Hecht can be found in a posh suite of offices perched at one end of the track. There he can monitor the betting windows on TV or close the curtains and lock the office door by pressing a button by his desk. "There's a few things you aren't going to stop people from doing," he philosophizes while sitting behind an inch-high stack of $100 bills. "Smoking...
...courthouse to watch a few hours on the tube, then rendered verdicts without ever seeing a single witness in the flesh. Opening and closing statements plus jury instructions were given live by lawyers and judge. The jurors were otherwise left in the courtroom-glued to a TV monitor...