Word: monitored
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harbury went to Guatemala to monitor human rights abuses in 1985. At the time, the Guatemalan government considered human rights investigations unwelcome foreign intervention and deported activists, Harbury said...
...will continue to monitor the data to evaluate our progress on this issue; we will continue to speak with students to learn more of the 'reasons why' the disparity exists in certain programs..." Wright-Swadel wrote...
...most reliable for safety and security, thanks to what I thought were strict controls by government inspectors and regulators. But if this is the sad state of airline safety in the U.S., what can we frequent international travelers expect from non-U.S. airlines? Do foreign governments closely monitor and control their private and national airlines? Is passenger safety high on their priority list, or do they give first consideration to the interests of the airlines--many of which are government owned? It scares me even to think about it! CARLOS F. LIZARDI Madrid...
...well-chosen video art. Noteworthy videos include Kristin Lucas' frank, neurotic monologues on life in the technology age, Cable Xcess and Host. Both of Lucas' videos ironically demonstrate the double bind in her masterful use of a technology which she fears somehow controls her. Exhibited on the same monitor, Suicide Box, by a group of artists calling themselves Bureau of Inverse Technology, provides a wry panoptic proposal for installing suicide detection boxes on the Golden Gate Bridge. Ever friendly to death toll tabulators and those who follow their statistics, the boxes can even distinguish between an errant sea gull...
Patients First, a coalition of four health-care unions based in Newark, New Jersey, is trying a different tack. In February it ran arresting ads on drive-time radio that opened with the beeping of a heart monitor ("This used to be the sound that mattered in determining your health care") and was followed by the ringing of a cash register ("Today this is the sound that matters"). The ads urged listeners to call a toll-free number "if you've been a victim of when profits come before patients." The coalition mainly wanted to recruit such victims to testify...