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...viewers of World Monitor, a nightly program of international news produced by the Christian Science Monitor, time does seem to be standing still. The program, which debuted last week on cable's Discovery Channel, has ) the meaty content and sober style of an earlier, less frantic TV era. Yet, to its creators, the show is not a look backward but an effort to bring a respected but somewhat stodgy news organization into the 1980s...
Founded in 1908 by the Church of Christ, Scientist, the Boston-based Monitor was created, in the words of its first editor, Archibald McLellan, to "publish the real news of the world in a clean, wholesome manner" -- a rarity in an era of yellow journalism. It soon won a reputation for thoughtful, analytical coverage of foreign events. In the 1970s, however, its readership began to dwindle. Worldwide circulation last year was 176,000 -- up from a 1982 low of 144,000 but still small for a national daily. Worse, the median age of its readers is a mature...
Although SPH will monitor the success of the project, it will not conduct "a full-blown investigation," DeJong said. With the cooperation of certain advertising agencies and polling organizations, project researchers will look for a change in attitudes about driving drunk...
Maybe. Walker sold technical details on the latest U.S. cryptographic machines, which enabled the Soviets to monitor U.S. communications and track the worldwide movement of American submarines...
...realize that Good Weather agents had oversold the policies, mostly within two days of the deadline, without permission. But the plaintiffs counter that Chubb, which specializes in up-scale homeowners' and commercial insurance, has been in the business for more than a century and should know how to monitor demand. Insurance authorities in at least five states are considering whether to seek revocation of Chubb's licenses to write insurance in their states...