Word: monitorable
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...hand. Programming a computer to recognize important themes and sift out relevant data would greatly reduce the human workload. The FBI could also use such a technique for tapped phones: instead of having an agent listen to all the conversations, a computer equipped to recognize spoken words could monitor the phone and print out conversations relating to themes it had been programmed to recognize as important...
...September, for example, dozens of eminent scientists?including two Nobel laureates?gathered at the Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory in Soviet Armenia under the auspices of the Soviet and U.S. Academies of Science to ponder a mind-boggling proposition: Should man try to monitor the messages of other worlds? The answer was a resounding yes. Russian, U.S., Czech. Hungarian and British delegates united to support an unusually cooperative proposal: "It seems to us appropriate that the search for extraterrestrial intelligence should be made by representatives of the whole of mankind...
...electric power. Nevertheless, like Horatio at the bridge, Commission Chairman C. Jackson Grayson Jr. has vowed that employers will not be allowed automatically to pass along exorbitant wage hikes to their customers. In effect, the Price Commission has been forced into serving as the Pay Board's monitor...
...forbidden-fruit temptation, and young Ted sneaked bites at every opportunity. But it was to be a long road to his permanent aisle seat. At Harvard he majored in sociology, graduating cum laude. During World War II he won a Bronze Star in the Pacific. At the Christian Science Monitor he reviewed books, an occupation he followed during his first ten years at TIME. It was in 1961 that he succeeded Louis Kronenberger as our drama critic...
Three Tiers. The Government will monitor both wages and prices by dividing the economy, like Caesar's Gaul, into three parts. Firms with annual sales of at least $100 million, which include all of FORTUNE'S list of the 500 largest U.S. corporations plus 800 others, and employee groups of at least 5,000 members will be required to notify the appropriate Government board 30 days in advance of raising wages or prices and obtain approval. The second tier of economic units, firms whose sales are between $50 million and $100 million annually and employee groups numbering...