Word: monitorable
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...weeks. The big carriers will need months, at a minimum. "Past practice has been to wait and see what others will do," explains Thomas Nunn, Frontier's director of safety. "This was no time to wait." Both JetBlue and Frontier are also making plans to install cameras to monitor the passenger cabin from the cockpit...
...mandated by Congress in more carefree times. They also want the INS to hire hundreds more border patrol agents and investigators to keep illegal immigrants out and to track them down once they're here. Reformers also want to see the INS set up a database to monitor, for the first time, whether visa holders actually leave the country when they are required to. "You can't secure the front door and then leave the back door completely open," says Susan Martin, director of the Georgetown University's Institute for the Study of International Migration...
...just read e-mail attachments on the PC? Paper is easier on the eyes than a computer monitor. That may change as technologies like ClearType render electronic text easier to read. But for now, says Sellen, "the office we are moving toward is not an office that uses less paper, it's an office that keeps less paper--one where paper is a temporary resource...
...DIED. PETER BLAKE, 53, a two-time America's Cup winner and New Zealand sailing hero, shot by masked pirates who raided his 40-m yacht on the Amazon; near Macapa, Brazil. A U.N. goodwill ambassador, Blake was on a worldwide expedition to monitor global warming and pollution. He won the Jules Verne Trophy in 1994 for sailing a catamaran nonstop around the globe in record time. DIED. JUAN JOSE ARREOLA, 83, a fiercely nationalist Mexican author who wrote 16 books of short stories and won Mexico's distinguished National Linguistics and Literature Prize in 1976; in Mexico City. Arreola...
...Laden's whereabouts remained unknown Thursday as anti-Taliban fighters continued to fight and negotiate their way up into al Qaeda's Tora Bora redoubt in eastern Afghanistan. He may not even be there; a report in the Christian Science Monitor speculated as much, quoting a close associate saying bin Laden left Tora Bora for Pakistan ten days ago. Of course, being an avowed comrade of bin Laden's, the Monitor's source has plenty of motive for tossing out red herrings. Whether or not bin Laden is among the fugitives holed up in the cave complex remains entirely...