Word: monitoring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...merely an answer, but 100 of them. A personal computer, it says, can send letters at the speed of light, diagnose a sick poodle, custom-tailor an insurance program in minutes, test recipes for beer. Testimonials abound. Michael Lamb of Tucson figured out how a personal computer could monitor anesthesia during surgery; the rock group Earth, Wind and Fire uses one to explode smoke bombs onstage during concerts; the Rev. Ron Jaenisch of Sunnyvale, Calif, programmed his machine so it can recite an entire wedding ceremony...
...ahead to an engineering team, cloistered at a plant in Boca Raton, Fla., to begin designing a small computer (the project was code-named Acorn). Twelve months later, the PC was rolling off the production line. Breaking with tradition, IBM had used many non-IBM components: the TV monitor came from Taiwan, the printer from Japan and the microprocessor from Intel Corp., a major chipmaker in which IBM last week acquired a 12% interest for $250 million. The investment was one of the largest IBM has ever made in an outside corporation. Software for the PC was provided by outside...
...enables the President to amend the Pakistani constitution at will. Yet in light of this record, Zia insists--with a straight face, no less--that he is still dedicated to his five-year-old pledge of restoring a democratic government. In a recent interview with the Christian Science Monitor. Zia explains that he's still "looking for a time which is conducive for holding peaceful elections...
Essentially, the proposed guidelines would regulate the activities of journalists. While developing countries feel such codes are necessary to monitor the flow of news about them. Western countries rightly perceive the plan as a means of legitimizing propaganda campaigns and censoring the content of news report...
Tsypkin: I would say they will continue a surreptitious deployment of SS-20. One of its characteristics is it is very difficult to monitor, making it a destabilizing force...