Word: monitoring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year-old Strout, a former Crimson editor, retired last month to devote more time to his job as a reporter for the Christian Science Monitor...
Calkins acknowledged that there is a problem in Harvard's ability to monitor companies operating in South Africa, adding he "is quite in sympathy" with the issues the hunger strikers and the other protesters...
...mean food and those that refer to nonedible items. Says Duane Rumbaugh: "Apes have the capacity to use symbols that represent things not present in time and space-the essence of semantics, in human parlance." The chimps also have demonstrated self-awareness. One, while watching itself on a television monitor, directed a flashlight beam into its mouth, apparently curious about what its throat looked like...
Whatever happens at Williamsburg, the U.S. is undoubtedly going to continue to look askance at the volume and substance of East-West trade. A focus for that critical view is the NATO alliance's Coordinating Committee on Export Controls, or COCOM, a body created in 1950 to monitor and restrict the flow of strategic Western industrial goods to the Warsaw Pact nations. It is virtually powerless today. Complains a senior Reagan Administration official: "COCOM is nothing but a junior Italian official and ten clerks...
...suspend all production of new nuclear weapons, then congressional watchdogs, Pentagon whistle blowers and investigative reporters would make sure that the ban was observed. There would be no similar self-policing in the secrecy-shrouded, security-obsessed U.S.S.R. Also, it would be extremely difficult for American intelligence agencies to monitor Soviet compliance with a ban on production, as opposed to deployment, of new weapons...