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...longer-term plans for setting wages and prices, then the inflation created by a shock to oil prices will tend to fade relatively quickly. Some indicators of longer-term inflation expectations have risen in recent months, which is a significant concern for the Federal Reserve. We will need to monitor that situation closely. However, changes in long-term inflation expectations have been measured in tenths of a percentage point this time around rather than in whole percentage points, as appeared to be the case in the mid-1970s. Importantly, we see little indication today of the beginnings of a 1970s...
...Whipple created Operation Moonwatch in 1956 to arm people all over the world, from high school students to housewives, with small telescopes and stopwatches, to create teams of novice stargazers to monitor the skies for satellites...
Suitcase SETI—or, as Horowitz referred to it in a speech before the NASA Sunnyvale Symposium, “Steamertrunk SETI”—is a portable spectrum analyzer designed specifically to search for SETI transmissions. It featured autocorrelation receivers that enabled it to monitor 131,000 channels for extraterrestrial signals—far more than had previously been possible with any one device...
With the inefficacy of those options in mind, Save the Children has recommended the creation of a new global watchdog organization to monitor and evaluate agency efforts to tackle abuse. The group also recommends the U.N. create local systems within their individual operations to allow locals to log complaints. "We want it to be a lot easier for children to come forward in any country, in places where there's a legal system," said Nutt...
...separate ETA attacks killed two of the town's residents; Ainhoa Ozaeta, the masked woman who appeared in the video that announced the 2006 ceasefire and who was one of the others arrested in Bordeaux Tuesday night, was his deputy mayor. "They would have had plenty of reason to monitor him," says Gurruchaga. "Andoain is a place where ETA has a lot of allies. And whenever there was an attack or a robbery, you would hear that the suspects had been last seen in Andoain, and then they would disappear. Someone was hiding them." Barandiaran was arrested separately on Wednesday...