Word: monitoring
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...traditionally adamant support for affirmative action approaches to discrimination and denial of equal protection. Established by the Civil Rights Act of 1957, the Commission serves primarily to investigate and study alleged civil rights violations on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, handicap, or national origin and to monitor and evaluate Federal laws and policies on civil rights. Although the Commission does not have powers of enforcement, it was instrumental in shaping federal attitudes toward discrimination. It also evaluates and criticizes federal programs and recommends changes to Congress and the President. In such a capacity, the Commission's independence...
...crucial precondition for progress. Australia wants to make a constructive and realistic contribution within our means. In this connection, the joint U.S.-Australian facilities on our soil play an important role in arms-control verification as well as maintaining Western security. We are upgrading our capacity to monitor nuclear explosions by seismic means...
...limited to possible ground attacks. Presidents have been protected from an air attack by a cache of ground-to-air missiles that are hidden near the White House. From a command and control center in the Old Executive Office Building next to the White House, security officers closely monitor all aircraft using nearby National Airport; they have less than a minute to decide whether to fire if a plane deviates suspiciously from an established flight pattern. Officials refuse to say what types of missiles are used...
...years ago, a young programmer named Bill Budge developed the smash hit Raster Blaster, the first computer game that simulated a pinball machine on a video monitor. Now, with Pinball Construction Set, Budge has done himself one better. This program puts the pictures of components on the screen and lets players make their own pinball machines. Flippers, bumpers, launchers and kickers fall easily into place and then perform like the real thing. Players can paint the pinball pieces bright colors, set up complex scoring patterns, or adjust the time, gravity and elasticity of the playing area. An added advantage...
...view of the geographical realities of the area, and the sworn enmity and strength of the Arab nations, it is more than a little bit strange that the UN and the concerned nations did not forsee what seems, in retrospect, to be the almost inevitable occupation. Israel needs to monitor and defend the Jordan River area, it has an ultimate right to do so, and neither the UN nor any individual nations should ask or expect the Israeli government to ever rescind this right...