Word: monitoring
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...resounding rejection last May of the CUE study abroad legislation. The Council's ostensible reasons for its nearly unanimous opposition to the proposal concerned 'quality control' at other colleges, the difficulty of estimating how many students would go abroad, and the logistical problem of creating a bureaucratic structure to monitor the program...
...TIME writer from 1973 to 1976, he went to our bureau in Hong Kong. Until last year, when the Peking government began allowing U.S. news organizations to station correspondents in China, American journalists could travel in the country occasionally, but for the most part they had to monitor developments from Hong Kong, through newspapers, broadcasts and talks with returning travelers...
...spectacular 20,000-ft. plume of gas and ash. The eruption was the first in the continental U.S. since 1914, when Mount Lassen, part of the Cascades in Northern California, came to life. Said Robert Tilling of the U.S. Geological Survey: "It's fabulous! We can actually monitor the reawakening of a dormant volcano with modern instrumentation. We're going to get a much better handle on our whole model of how the earth behaves...
...power now than they were before the accident. Both Met-Ed and the NRC have tightened their procedures and improved their machinery in an effort to prevent a recurrence. Middletowners have learned even more. At the time of the accident last year, the town had neither the instruments to monitor radiation levels nor a plan for moving its inhabitants out of danger. Since then, the town has installed radiation detectors on the roof of the borough hall and put together an 80-page program that provides for the evacuation of the town by road, rail, river and even...
Creating Supernukes. Under new Nuclear Regulatory Commission rules, utilities are permanently assigning an additional expert to each shift to serve as technical adviser or supernuke, in operator lingo. The adviser is supposed to be kept free of all routine duties so that he can monitor safety indicators and help operators interpret plant conditions. Says Jim Toscas, the nuclear training supervisor for Commonwealth Edison in Illinois: "The objective is for the adviser to be so well rounded he can't be snowed by anybody in the plant...