Word: monitorable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...BISHOP has denounced it for the sin of pride. The new director of the FBI is urging it on his top aides, explaining that he wants "their spirits to soar." A group of alcoholics in Ypsilanti, Mich., uses it to inspire members to recovery. The Christian Science Monitor has refused to carry ads for it. A manufacturer has declared that it encourages "ambition, attainment, leadership, exploration, excellence, growth, goals, imagination, courage, determination, loyalty, sharing, teaching, involvement and concern"?not to mention more aggressive salesmanship. Critics have variously classified it as Hinduism and Scientology. Recently, a columnist, dismissing the whole...
...Emmett takes her politics very seriously. "When I heard that women had been given the vote," she once told me. "I sat down and cried, because I thought of all the work that was ahead of me." She reads The Christian Science Monitor and the Sunday Times, and fumes about Mr. Nixon's latest imbecilities ("Well, what do you think about our current President?" she rejoined, after I had said that maybe things weren't going downhill as feel as she seemed to think). She is an adamant pacifist ("I've lived through five wars," she says...
...Control Commission to supervise the ceasefire. The present I.C.C., consisting of Canada, Poland and India, is a forlorn remnant that has been charged since 1954 with enforcing the Geneva Accords in Indochina. Other nations and considerable manpower would have to be added to the I.C.C. to enable it to monitor the cease-fire with any effectiveness...
...present, there has been no incentive for private insurance companies to monitor their own costs, because these are always passed on directly to the consumer," the doctors said...
Baldwin had complained of boredom in guarding the Mitchells and was assigned by McCord, chief security coordinator for the Re-Election Committee, to monitor the bugs. For three weeks in May and June he typed the conversations and gave them to McCord, who converted them into memos that went, Baldwin contends, to the Re-Election Committee. Baldwin's own involvement became known because he had found the bugging, too, a bit boring, and for diversion had placed a call from the motel room to his home in West Haven, Conn. The motel kept a record of the call...