Word: monitors
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...billion in drug funds laundered through the international banking system each year. Finance experts have long called for increased surveillance of so-called wire transfers. The task will be daunting because $1 trillion or more moves through banking wires each day, and the Government lacks the resources to monitor...
...such standards by upgrading their current pollution controls rather than developing expensive new systems. For example, the bill would require that catalytic converters, now guaranteed to be effective for 50,000 miles, be beefed up to last 100,000 miles. Other alterations would range from adding a microchip to monitor a car's pollution controls to expanding a charcoal canister that catches evaporating gasoline fumes when a car's engine is off. The EPA estimates that such improvements could raise car prices as much as $200 by 1996 and $500 more...
...other hand, feel that their three-hour high school exit exam in reading, writing and math -- which for the first time will be required for a diploma this academic year -- has already had a salutary effect. "Students are taking it seriously and studying," says Robert Paskel, a state education monitor. One worry: that kids who do not pass will become discouraged and eventually drop out. "Holding students back, especially in the lower grades, doesn't help," says Bill Honig, state superintendent of public instruction in California...
...assistance program. Though the White House offered few details about what it called a "new package of support" for Poland, aides hinted that a half-billion dollars' worth of credits and loans would be announced this week. Officials said it would be channeled through agencies, like the IMF, that monitor its effects on the recipient's economy...