Word: monitoring
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...extraordinary example of Glenn's fixation on detail occurred during the 1979 debate over the SALT II treaty. Jimmy Carter viewed the treaty as indispensable to further political initiatives with the Soviets and told Glenn so. Glenn focused on verification. He was convinced that the U.S. could not monitor the pact because of the loss of two tracking stations in Iran and the knowledge that the U.S. reconnaissance satellite had temporarily failed...
Dissatisfaction with this response led the clergymen last week to press Congress to stop human engineering. Democratic Congressman Albert Gore Jr. of Tennessee has introduced a bill, thought likely to win House approval, that would create a presidential commission to monitor, but not regulate, developments in the field. Gore last week called the clergymen's request for a moratorium on research "a hasty judgment...
Wearing combat fatigues and toting a .22-cal. rifle, Robert Wickes, 24, stormed into a junior high school social-studies class in Brentwood, N.Y., one day last month and took 22 pupils hostage. By the time the subsequent confrontation ended nine hours later, Wickes, a recently fired substitute monitor, had critically wounded one student, nicked the school principal in the face and shot himself dead. Within a week, the Brentwood school district was under siege once again, this time by lawyers announcing they would file suits on behalf of some of the children held hostage. So far, the parents...
...When a person is found who has an uptake in radio-iodine it is up to us to determine how they got it, what the levels are, and how to resolve the problem," says Johnson. "It is also up to us to monitor the labs for contamination for those working with radio-nucleotides, whether it is on their hands, clothing the benches, or floors...
Fitness, like cooking and camping, is prone to gadgetry. Numerous blood pressure devices are on the market. Seiko and several other makers sell watches that monitor pulse. Barre Rorabaugh, president of Huffy's sporting goods division and a participant in the 1979 Boston Marathon, foresees the day when someone will be pumping away on a bicycle, all the while reading his pulse, blood pressure, elapsed time, mileage and calorie burn-off. When Americans are not exercising, they seem to want to read about it or see other people doing it. Health and diet books make...