Word: monitored
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...money swapping consumer profiles like baseball cards. But the Web is bringing this great American pastime to new levels of invasive splendor. Ironically, one of the most attractive features of the Net--its ability to customize content instantly--morphs smoothly into one of its most sinister: the ability to monitor who you are and what you're doing online, even...
Take an automated laboratory at New York Presbyterian Hospital. Conveyor belts transport blood or urine specimens in containers that resemble toy railroad cars from a collection point to a computerized analyzer. The machine takes a sample with a dipstick; the computer reads the results and flashes them to the monitor of the doctor in charge of the case. The lab will save the salaries of dozens of people who "used to move the specimens around by hand, read the test results on a screen and then telephone the doctor," says Scalzi. The lab cost $7 million...
...school committee has been calling for a new attendance policy for several years, said city councillor and former school committee member Henrietta Davis. The fallacy of the proposed policy, she added, is that the school committee intended to discourage students from cutting classes--not to monitor excused absences approved by parents...
...School Professor Detlev F. Vagts '48 said he generally agrees with the policy.Although he will not monitor attendance all of thetime, he said he expects students to be in classfor at least the two most important lectures,which he makes clear in the syllabus and duringwhich he will take attendance...
...Jesse Jackson took to his TV bully pulpit to air his pastoral moments with the Clinton family, and only days before the President used Washington's annual prayer breakfast to proclaim himself a sinner. Last week word got out that the President had asked three clerics to monitor his recovery in weekly prayer sessions. The recruitment of so many spiritual counselors to bear witness to Clinton's soul searching led politicos and pastors alike to wonder whether the White House in its darkest hour had settled on a new strategy: playing the God card...