Word: monitorable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thrust was poorly thought out and badly implemented at its start. "We may have funded too many programs too quickly," he says. "There was a general desire to throw the money out, to get things going." Only now is OMBE setting up a computerized evaluation system to monitor the performance of the 160 semi-autonomous Business Development Organizations in 40 states that carry out the bulk of its work. With the new system. OMBE officials will be able to decide which BDOs have been effective in creating new businesses, and which have failed to measure...
...most lengthy objections to the plan, which was submitted on May 1, the HEW review stated that Leonard "does not have sufficient authority to effectively impelment, coordinate or monitor the affirmative action plan," as demanded by HEW regulations...
...imagine a trend toward counterespionage of paranoid proportions. Future offices of public officials will no doubt be lined with lead to foil electronic snoopers; windows, even those high up, will be etched with sensor tape, attuned both to touch and long-range bugging beams; closed-circuit television sets will monitor every door and elevator, and squads of men in gumshoes will patrol rooftops...
...have been some notable changes since January. American G.I.s have gone home, prisoners have been exchanged, and Viet Cong officers-escorted always by South Vietnamese security troops-drive around Saigon. There is also the ineffectual presence of the four-nation International Commission of Control and Supervision (ICCS), created to monitor the adherence of both sides to the truce. The Hungarian and Polish commission members, who consider themselves Hanoi's representatives, have employed dilatory and obstructionist tactics to prevent the Canadian and Indonesian members from investigating reported truce violations. Last week External Affairs Minister Mitchell Sharp announced that Canada would...
...outfit called Congress Watch, which he says would be "the largest public interest lobby in the U.S." Starting with a staff of three that will eventually grow to ten, Watch will not only push for legislation on such matters as consumer protection and tax reform but also monitor the performance of individual Congressmen. Watch might improve on the results of one of Nader's few projects that fell short of its target, a 1972 study of Congress that was criticized even by some of Nader's admirers as superficial and lacking in new details...