Word: monitored
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...economists want to spot a zig or a zag in the graphs that may mark the beginning of a trend. They now recognize that there are a few such signs that indicate an impending recession well in advance of an actual downturn. Like the blips on a DEW-line monitor, these signals are only warnings of impending crisis; they are not recessionary in themselves. The chief harbingers...
Near Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee is a green woodland dot with man-made pits and a steadily pond. Both pits and pond been used for the disposal of ra wastes, so an 8-ft. chain-link fringed with barbed wire keeps people away from the dangers. Unmanned monitor stations, looking like small refrigerators packed with instruments, keep for signs of trouble. Last sum some of the monitors began to give high readings. One reported than one roentgen per hour, and takes an accumulated dose of only roentgens to kill...
...Monitor. Somehow, radioactive mud seemed to be getting into instrument boxes. But how? Insect Ecologist Alvin Fleetwood Shinn was called in to investigate. Dressed in white coveralls, rubber boots and gloves, and carrying a radiation survey meter, he prowled the forbidden woods and soon identified the culprits. Hidden among the monitor instruments, sometimes even plastered on vacuum tubes, were dozens of mud nests built by wasps...
...pipe. But once in place, pipelines are impervious to weather and immune to strikes, operate day and night with rare breakdowns and only occasional pumping station overhauls. They eliminate the costly necessity of deadheading empty cars, barges or tankers, are so automated that only a handful of men can monitor a cross-country system. Pipelines are thus the cheapest transportation available for bulk commodities: gasoline can be shipped from Texas 900 miles to Chicago for less than a penny a gallon...
Beyond the South, a Christian Science Monitor survey showed Goldwater leading Johnson in Arizona, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Maine, Kentucky, Indiana, Nebraska and Kansas. Critical California still seemed doubtful for Barry. California Secretary of State Frank Jordan, a Republican who felt Barry was already attracting a good deal of new support, said: "There's only one reason for it-and that's the protest against what's going on in civil rights." Democratic State Chairman Eugene Wyman admits that "it's going to be a tough fight. The people who support Goldwater have got the fervor...