Word: monitoring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Christian Science Monitor recently discovered that a Third World cigarette often contains up to four times as much tar as a cigarette of the same brand sold in the United States. This callous, if not criminal, exploitation greatly magnifies the health risks posed by smoking. The results are beginning to show: The newly created epidemic of smoking-related diseases in Third World countries already rivals even infections diseases and malnutrition--historically the Third World's greatest medical problems--in many areas. And since the result of smoking often take 10 to 15 years to manifest themselves, the worst effects still...
...second and smaller portion of the satellite, sent into space last Aug. 30 to monitor movements of U.S. and other ships, remains in orbit and is expected to fall in mid-February...
...Back in the pit, Levine continues with Tannhäuser, periodically dashing into the house to check the lighting levels on the television monitor. The performance will be broadcast, and Levine knows that what he watches from the pit is not necessarily what audiences at home will see. By 1:25 p.m. he is once again back at his desk, eating the rest of his lunch (a salad) and looking over a list of apprentice singers to be approved and the provisional plan for the Met's 1986-87 season. He sets a time to meet with Artist David...
Osborne 1 ($1,795). The first of the sewing machine-size portable computers, the Osborne 1 squeezes into a 24-lb. package a video monitor, a pair of disc drives and the two programs indispensable to businessmen: financial forecasting and word processing. Despite its eye-straining 5-in. screen, 55,000 Osborne 1 models were sold in 1982, bringing the total number shipped to nearly...
...computer scientists began creating a jargon of their own, sometimes described pejoratively as computerese, to talk to each other. Like the high priests of any new religion, these keepers of the computer faith like to rename familiar things (How else could a TV screen become a monitor?). They like even more to give new things names that are as mystifying to an outsider as the secret password of an esoteric cult. Thus the computer's two forms of "memory" are known as RAM and ROM. The temporary memory, RAM, meaning "random-access memory," can easily be changed; the permanent...