Word: monitoring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...census taking can be hazardous. The employees counting poison darts and hedgehogs required thick cloth gloves; those cataloguing protozoa developed eyestrain after weeks of staring intently into microscopes; those working with uranium samples had to wear special devices to monitor levels of radiation; and those tallying mammals preserved in alcohol experienced queasy stomachs. "It doesn't smell like Chivas Regal in those collections," sniffed one researcher...
...crackdown to carry out its first significant economic "reform": price hikes of up to 400% on food and other necessities. Solidarity had previously agreed that subsidized food prices would have to rise, but the government had refused to grant what the union was asking in exchange: the right to monitor economic data. Says Andrzej Wolowski, who formerly directed Solidarity's international relations and now lives in Paris: "Things would not have got so tense politically if the government had accepted our practical suggestions. But they took them as a threat...
...reward is being offered directly by the Websters, although at least a portion of it is reportedly being supplied by George Webster's employer, International Telephone and Telegraph, Inc. (ITT). Webster said Sunday that ITT security personnel were helping him to monitor police progress in the investigation...
...Instead, California social services agencies enrolled him in a new kind of program for the elderly that allowed him to continue living in his own home. Three days a week, from 10 a.m. to 3 in the afternoon, Crandall goes to a day care center for adults. There, nurses monitor his health, a physical therapist provides him with exercises, a nutritionist plans his lunch and friends keep him interested in the world. Together, says Crandall, "they give me the incentive to live...
DIED. Erwin ("Spike") Canham, 77, scholarly editor emeritus of the Christian Science Monitor; after abdominal surgery; in Agana, Guam. Under Canham's direction, the Monitor was known for incisive international coverage and interpretive news writing. A farm boy who made it to Oxford, he joined the Monitor in 1925 and was named editor in chief in 1964. Canham served in a variety of civic positions, but still found time to teach Christian Science Sunday school class. After retiring from the Monitor in 1974, he was named resident commissioner of the Northern Mariana Islands...