Word: monitoring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...million worth of aid and equipment, rescuers were often at cross-purposes. Swiss and French avalanche dogs, trained to sniff out buried bodies, were thrown off the scent by powerful disinfectants that were sprayed on buildings to keep decaying bodies from spreading disease. French microphonic devices, flown in to monitor buildings for faint sounds of breathing, were useless in the din of bulldozers...
...interactive system, much like the QUBE system used in Columbus, Ohio, would allow city officials to poll residents on local issues, and even permit the network to be used for burglar and fire alarms and to monitor energy use, the committee says...
...Labs, says replacing the hoods would be "very disruptive to operations" and he would rather try using dampers on the present hoods or closing them off at night. But Donald J. Ciappenelli, director of the Chem Lab says that shutting down overnight would prove impossible because graduate students often monitor their experiments 24 hours...
...Interfactory Strike Committee will establish a center for social and labor studies, whose job will be to monitor the living conditions of the working people...
Grim steel watchtowers equipped with machine-gun ports and studded along the frontier within sight of each other monitor every yard of the fence and the barren strip of no man's land behind it. The nine road, eight rail and two canal crossings are tightly guarded and brightly floodlit at night. Traffic is minutely inspected to foil escapes. Heat-sensitive devices are used to detect persons hidden in vehicles and barges, and trained German shepherd dogs roam underneath all trains to sniff out would-be escapees clinging to undercarriages...