Word: monitoring
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OSHA does not have the resources to monitor industries for levels of arsenic, nor to research the long-term effects of worker exposure to low levels of airborne arsenic. And it is incapable of even establishing new safety standards. Even if OSHA did feel, finally, that gallium arsenic technology should be taken off the market, it would not have the power to do so. OSHA can only prescribe safety standards--it cannot out-law certain types of technology. Thus, barring a public outcry against the technology, production of chips seems destined to follow the inexorable and fatal growth pattern...
THOUGH NO ONE likes to expand the bureaucracy, the best solution to the existing safety problems in high tech industry is to establish a new agency--one that would monitor solely computer and electronic firms. The narrow focus would enable such an agency to spend money researching the long-term effects of worker exposure to toxic chemicals. The agency could be empowered to prevent high tech companies from using potentially dangerous technology at will...
...means that forecasters will have to make do with pictures sent from GOES 6, currently stationed over the Pacific. As a stopgap remedy, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the National Weather Service are moving GOES 6 to a more easterly position, where it will be able to monitor the continental U.S. and part of the Atlantic. The maneuver, which calls for a carefully choreographed pattern of propellant bursts, could take nearly three weeks...
Marveled a deputy flight director as he watched the operation from a TV monitor in Soviet Central Asia: "Women really can do everything...
...demands for peace talks: war reparations from Iraq and the ouster of President Saddam Hussein. Last May, however, the Iranians stopped demanding that Iraq pay for the war and accepted a U.N.-sponsored cease-fire protecting civilian targets. Iran not only agreed to allow observers into the country to monitor the ceasefire, but also urged that it be extended to gulf shipping. Iraq rejected the proposal because it made no allowances for the reopening of Iraqi ports, closed at the beginning...