Word: monitoring
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Becauselesbians and gay men are often told that discrimination does not exist or that documentation of such discrimination as either insufficient or inadequate, the Harvard Lesbian/Gay Caucus has established a clearinghouse to monitor incidents. This will not only provide documentation, but also assistance to those who use it. The telephone number of the Clearinghouse Hotline is 491-1548, and the Clearinghouse is interested in hearing from all members of the community. Elizabeth R. Brown Past President, Harvard Lesbian/Gay Caucus
...were disappointed. For one thing, its keyboard was difficult to use. Even worse, its memory was limited, an unpardonable offense in a / computer. It did not satisfy professionals looking for sophisticated machines, and its price range of $699 to $1,269 for various models (without accessories like a display monitor) was too steep for casual users. IBM responded to widespread consumer complaints last summer by reducing prices and improving the memory on new models and offering a better keyboard without charge to people who had already bought PCjrs...
During the Christmas season, dealers tried to spur demand by slashing prices further. Some stores, for example, offered a PCjr with color monitor for $795 instead of the usual $1,400. Sales finally started to take off. Of the estimated 240,000 PCjrs sold in 1984, about 200,000 were bought in the fourth quarter. But selling the PCjr at cut-rate prices was not especially profitable, and when dealers dropped the discounts in January, the PCjr, in the industry phrase, "stuck to the shelves" in stores...
...Memphis with only 425 lbs. of cocaine instead of the 518 lbs. he was supposed to have seized, federal agents became suspicious. Surveillance revealed that Dan Mitrione Jr., 38, a ten-year FBI veteran, had been involved on the sly in the same drug deals he was assigned to monitor. According to official sources, Mitrione, while working on a project code-named "Operation Airlift," sold the more than 90 lbs. of cocaine skimmed from the Memphis bust for cash and property worth about $850,000, and took bribes from the drug traffickers he was investigating. Said FBI Director William...
Senators last week laid part of the blame for the proliferation of money laundering on Comptroller of the Currency C. Todd Conover, whose agency helps monitor national banks. Declared New Hampshire Republican Warren Rudman: "The record of enforcement for this act has been nothing short of abysmal." Conover, who plans to leave office soon, claimed that the federal examiners who gave Bank of Boston its annual inspection three years ago were simply ignorant of the cash-reporting...