Word: monitorable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Soviets dickered separately with U.S. grain companies, and the Agriculture Department did almost nothing to monitor the purchases. Thus the Soviets were able to keep U.S. businessmen and farmers in the dark about how much grain they were buying at bargain prices that were kept low by Government export subsidies. This lapse occurred even though the dimensions of the deal should have been apparent to the department. Executives of three major grain dealers-Continental Grain Co., Cargill Inc. and Louis Dreyfus Corp.-told the Jackson subcommittee last week that they had separately notified Assistant Secretary Carroll G. Brunthaver...
...What?" said the monitor...
...What?" yelled the monitor. "You can't audit this class. Your money isn't on the list and you didn't pay your name to audit. Greedy person...
...professor had no objection to my auditing the class. The classroom had many empty seats. My classmates didn't seem to mind sharing the knowledge they might find. But there were two problems: I had no money, and the monitor didn't have my name...
...course, there is always the gaggle of network newsmen--Daniel Schorr, Sam Donaldson, Douglas Kiker, Mike Wallace, etc. Daniel Schorr has the best view in the whole room--on a television monitor placed in front of him on the press table...