Word: monitoring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...having mechanical troubles, but it issued no international distress signal. Instead, the ship and its crew of about 90 men braved the winds and waves, bobbing, in the words of a U.S. officer, "like a Ping-Pong ball in a stormy bathtub." A Soviet intelligence ship eventually appeared to monitor the activities of the submarine and an American destroyer that was keeping watch over the stricken craft, while the queasy Soviet sailors waited for a salvage ship that eventually arrived from Cuba. Said a Pentagon spokesman during the uncomfortable hiatus: "She isn't going anywhere. She is dead...
...group was founded in the early sixties to monitor the compliance of nations to the United Nations' Declaration on Human Rights, Rubinstein said...
...allure of its machines by offering seductively low prices. The 3270 will sell for just under $6,000, or approximately $2,000 less than Apple's top-of-the-line Lisa, which has similar features. Both Lisa and the 3270 can display so-called windows on their monitor screens to enable users to work with several programs at once...
Innovation, however, has seldom been IBM's strongest selling point. The company has traditionally stressed service and reliability. The PC, for example, was not a technological breakthrough and is assembled largely from parts made by outside suppliers. Its microprocessing heart is manufactured by California-based Intel, while the monitor's display tube is produced by Japan's Matsushita. Microsoft of Bellevue, Wash., provides the operating system, or master program. The PC has been successful largely because the IBM name symbolizes confidence and security in a field known for instability and uncertainty...
Thirteen years after Cambridge implemented one of the toughest rent control policies in the state, tenants are dissatisfied. They say the regulations--which monitor the costs to both tenants and landlords in low- to moderate-income housing--have been subverted in two ways: landlords are getting around the restrictions by making unnecessary repairs and then demanding increases to cover them: and relatively affluent people are taking the controlled housing from the low-income tenants who need it more...