Word: monitoring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Until the Boston Area Police Emergenes Radio Network (BAPERN) system was switched on at 8 a.m. the University department only had direct radio contact with the Cambridge Police. The new system, installed at a cost of $280.000, allows Harvard to monitor and broadcast to all police agencies in the metropolitan area bounded...
...spring, but Verba acknowledges some concern over maintaining close touch with students during such a project. "I guess I don't have a very clear and single answer to how one finds out what are the issues," he says. He adds, however, that research in the way elected officials monitor constituencies gives him a better sense of the problem than others might have...
...have installed electronic gear that rivals their own products in sophistication. Ultrasonic motion detectors emit high-frequency sound waves that can instantly sense intruders. Invisible infrared beams of light set off alarms as they are broken. Rolm Corp., a Silicon Valley computer manufacturer, uses an electronic control room to monitor its extensive protection system...
...past month, Portugal and New Zealand, as well as France, have tried to attack inflation directly by imposing controls on wages, prices or both. Though attractive in principle, such policies are difficult to administer in practice. To make them work, governments must monitor hundreds of thousands of wage and price decisions. Moreover, past experience with controls, including the wage-price freeze imposed by President Nixon in 1971, shows that inflation returns once the restrictions are lifted. Says Economist Clifford Hardin, who was a member of the Cost of Living Council that oversaw Nixon's freeze: "Wage and price controls...
...shot miraculously dropped, Watson ran off his tension and excitement, galloping around the edge of the green with his head tossed back like a chestnut colt's. "All I saw was him running around," said Nicklaus, who had completed his own play and was watching a television monitor near the 18th green. "At first I thought he had flipped out, because I couldn't imagine anyone holing it from there." After Watson had plotted a careful par at 18, only happening to make the birdie putt for a two-shot victory, there was Nicklaus waiting at the last...