Word: monitoring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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German intelligence had managed to learn in advance that when the BBC broadcast a sequence of two well-known lines of Verlaine's poetry, it was announcing to the French underground that the invasion would begin within 48 hours. At 10:15 p.m. on June 5, a German radio monitor with the Fifteenth Army in Calais heard the second line, "Blessent mon coeur d'une langueur monotone " (Wound my heart with a monotonous languor). The monitor warned his superiors; they ordered an alert, but nobody ever passed the word to the Seventh Army. These German intelligence failures and Eisenhower...
While liberals love the Boston Globe, others think it is more like the smoking habit. You know it is bad for you, but you cannot give it up. Two Boston papers are superior: the Herald, with better columnists and editorials, and the Christian Science Monitor, which ranks higher overall...
...living former Presidents and Ronald Reagan had been invited to address the meeting, but only Nixon accepted. Confessed Black: "I didn't know how it would go off." Judging by the reaction, Nixon may have achieved his own cold peace with the Fourth Estate. Said Christian Science Monitor Editor Katherine W. Fanning: "For him to be able to stand in front of his severest and, in some ways, most vicious critics, and show such resilience, was quite extraordinary...
...pursue their personal and professional goals. It is time for many couples to question whether they should bring children into an increasingly predatory world. Contemporary life-styles and careers often do not afford parents the time or energy to give basic care to the very young or to monitor it carefully...
Bechtel issued his memo in response to charges that will soon be published simultaneously in Mother Jones and Multi-national Monitor, both liberal, investigative magazines. The articles maintain that between 1977 and 1980 Bechtel Power, a subsidiary, funneled an estimated $72,000 in cash and duty-free golf clubs and appliances to key South Korean officials in order to help win four nuclear-power-plant contracts worth more than $400 million. If that is true, the payments violate the 1977 Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which prohibits U.S. businessmen from making payments to foreign officials in order to win contracts. Moreover...