Word: monitoring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Governor responded by asking the EPA to re-evaluate its policy on endrin use and petitioning Agency Administrator Anne Gorsuch for more money to monitor the problem in Montana. The state fish and game commission, meanwhile, conducted studies of toxin levels in 100 game fowl and announced that it would decide whether or not hunting could go on. Most hunters, busy polishing their shotguns and checking their decoys, would not comment on the situation...
Harvard has hired a nationally respected development firm, Gerald Hines Interests of Houston, to coordinate and monitor the University Place construction. Richard Reynolds, who is supervising the project for Gerald Hines Interests, agreed with community organizers who say the design review process has helped reduce planning time that would have been required to overcome neighborhood opposition. "Compared to what we normally would have expected in Cambridge, it's gone superbly," Reynolds said...
...clamoring for Watt's ouster, they are trying to draw and quarter him in the courts for what they view as his efforts to turn back the environmental clock. "He's being sued right and left," crows Craig Van Note, executive vice president of the environmental group Monitor Consortium. And Patrick Parenteau, legal counsel for the National Wildlife Federation, predicts an "explosion of litigation" as Watt's plans for developing the nation's natural resources take shape...
...MATEP will violate the pollution standards it has agreed to live by. "We can't wait for another Love Canal. Those people waited 20 years. I don't want to wait for that--I'll watch my people's health now," Ploss says, adding that she plans to closely monitor the health of her family and sue Harvard for any deterioration. "I don't want the money. I want my kids' health," she adds...
...that nation's security. Under Secretary of State James Buckley suggested that the relatively slow (530 m.p.h.) AWACS planes, which are modified Boeing 707 jetliners, could easily be shot down by Israeli fighters if they strayed close enough to Israel's borders to permit their radar to monitor Israeli aircraft. The Defense Department declassified studies showing how well the high ground around Israel blocks airborne radar at low altitudes. The Air Force even gave a team of Israeli military and technical experts a nine-hour flight across much of the U.S. in an AWACS plane last week...