Word: monitoring
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...hands of victims. In fact, the FDA spent $5 million more than the $46 million Congress provided to seek a cure for the disease. With health-conscious Americans including less red meat in their diets, the FDA's thin line of inspectors has been forced to monitor increasing amounts of seafood, imported fruits and vegetables, and chicken and eggs. A number of spectacular food- tampering cases, like last March's poisoned Chilean grape case (only two tainted grapes were discovered), forced the agency to reassign up to one-third of all FDA inspectors for long periods of time. "When...
...machine or personal computer, a launderer can have wire transfers sent around the world without ever speaking to a banking officer. The goal of many launderers is to get their money into the maelstrom of global money movements, where the volume is so great that no regulators can really monitor it all. Such traffic has exploded because of the globalization of the world economy, which has multiplied the volume of international trade and currency trading. On an average working day, the Manhattan-based Clearing House for Interbank Payments System handles 145,500 transactions worth more than $700 billion...
Coalition members plan to monitor which companies abide by the Valdez Principles and to publicize the findings. In that way, environmentally conscious citizens would be able to decide which firms are best to buy products from, invest in and work for. If this strategy succeeds, companies will find that protecting the environment will be the best way to protect profits...
Officials said Baker outlined his plans for a wider political role for NATO. His plan, unveiled in Berlin on Monday, foresees the alliance as a permanent monitor of the reductions being discussed in Vienna and as a mediator of regional conflicts...
...dinghies along the tops of the rising waves, patrolling for any suspicious movement in adjacent waters. A shabby little barge, old tires festooning its scuffed sides, turned out to be in the employ of the Navy, the keeper of the communication cable to the Belknap. That allowed Bush to monitor events in the Philippines, where U.S. force once again had to be committed to help stabilize a friend...