Word: monitoring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...York City-based U.S. Helsinki Watch Committee, about 55 Poles, many of them former Solidarity activists or supporters, have died under mysterious circumstances since martial law was imposed. In the city of Wroclaw last week, a group of workers and intellectuals announced the creation of a committee to monitor human rights abuses. Members said they had taken the unusual step because "the police forces have slipped out of social control and even out of the control of the authorities...
...been an unsatisfactory election campaign, with issues sloganized more than argued, the melancholy state of affairs says something about the decline of the power of the press. It has been much less effective this time as the self-appointed monitor of political campaigns, stirring up the issues, keeping each side honest and the facts straight. Those who say the press is all-powerful (it is mostly said by the enemies of the press) cannot prove it by election year...
Frederick E. Snyder, lecturer of Latin American law and assistant dean at the Law School, visited Nicaragua last week with a private group to monitor Sunday's elections...
...very difficult to monitor that sort of thing. I presume most states would not have the ability," said Byron A. Hartley, director of financial assistance at Boston University...
...economy and the ever growing pervasiveness of chips. "Semiconductors are here and people now recognize that," says Stephen Zelencik, a senior vice president of Advanced Micro Devices. "They are everywhere, for every reason, in everything." Chips have long since become the most popular components of watches. In cars they monitor antipollution systems and adjust idle speeds. In factories they control robots and automated assembly lines. They are embedded in virtually every major weapons system, where they perform such crucial tasks as aiming guns and navigating flights...