Word: monitoring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fortunately, the principal was more of a talker than the hall monitor. I not only found out that the school had been around since 1860, but when I expressed my surprise that a Catholic girls' school should be sitting inthe middle of a strip of pubs, the office burst in to laughter, the principal informed me that there were 16 Catholic girls' schools in the area, and one girl said, "Catholic schools are always in the middle of a strip of pubs...
...addition to one more flight this year, NASA has scheduled seven for 1989, ten for 1990, nine for 1991 and 13 for 1992. For the time being, the Pentagon remains partly dependent on the shuttle. Its high-resolution "keyhole" photo-reconnaissance satellite, which will be used in part to monitor Soviet compliance with nuclear-arms-reduction treaties, will be aboard the next shuttle. Scientists too have been granted accommodations -- aboard the Atlantis in April 1989, the next opportunity to launch the Magellan mission, and the following October for the Galileo probe. The Hubble telescope may finally get off the ground...
...indoor temperature is at or below 68 degrees Farenheit, state and federal regulations require Harvard to heat the buildings. To monitor the temperature, the computer is connected to a network of temperature sensors called "space sensors" located both inside and outside Harvard's buildings...
...program will add 460 employees to the state agency, said Katie Stimmel, spokesman for the DEQE. She said the department has been understaffed for years and that the new workers will help it monitor businesses and contractors more carefully...
...playing back such calls to other callers. "I just stabbed my wife and two daughters," one man screamed into the phone. "I buried my wife and daughter in the backyard. My other daughter is buried under the pier." The Los Angeles police, who do not monitor the line, say that it is up to the operators to report likely crimes. But Denton does not feel qualified to judge whether someone is telling the truth. Besides, confessors' calls are usually untraceable...