Word: monitorable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sprinkling of established writers-critic John Simon (of Andrew Sarris Fame); novelist Julian Moynihan ( Pairing Off ); screenwriter Frank Pierson ( Cat Ballou and Cool Hand Luke ); psychiatrist Willard Gaylin ( In The Service of Their Country: War Resisters in Prison )-and a number of veteran newspapermen (two from the Christian Science Monitor others from the Boston Herald and the Globe ), but, again, there are also an equal number representing the field of corporate journalism, working for Time/Life and Newsweek -including, of course, Osborn Elliott, Newsweek editor-in-chief and chief marshal for Commencement...
...Council of Better Business Bureaus. The review board, expected to be operating by fall, will consist of 50 members representing advertising agencies, industry and the public. B.B.B. offices around the country will accept complaints about national print or broadcast ads, and a Manhattan-based staff of ad specialists will monitor promotions. If an advertiser ignores the complaints, the matter will go to the review board, which will then 1) determine whether the complaint is justified, and, if so, 2) try to persuade the advertiser to correct or drop the offensive ad. Failing this, the board will publish its findings...
...Treasurer, Financial Vice-President. Investment Manager, and Managing Partner of the State Street Investment Corporation are all one person and a member of the Corporation raises not only the familiar problem of overload but doubt about how the rest of the Corporation is to achieve the human distance to monitor his judgment and performance over the full range of his extensive responsibilities," the Andrews report comments...
...pressing buttons in front of two monitoring screens, the patrolman can revolve either camera 350° or sweep it up and down through an angle of 120°. Other buttons operate zoom lenses that enable the monitor to swoop in without hesitation on suspicious activities half a mile away from the cameras (which are located two blocks apart). When the patrolman on monitoring duty spots a crime in progress, he can immediately dispatch the nearest squad car to the scene...
...that could jeopardize its mission and sources.* As the feud progressed, Boggs, too, did some retrenching, admitting that Mitchell might be "technically correct" about the absence of taps. But he continued to insist that the FBI had Congressmen under "surveillance"-perhaps using other electronic devices to monitor their offices. Boggs further blunted his attack by the specious argument that whatever the facts, a number of his colleagues believe their phones are tapped and that "if everyone thinks his phone is tapped, it's as bad as their being tapped. You're sure not going to carry...