Word: monitors
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...effort to monitor diseases, vaccinate susceptible groups, improve health conditions around the world, develop new drugs and get information to the public would be enormously expensive. But the price of doing nothing may be measured in millions of lost lives. Doctors are still hopeful but no longer overconfident. "I do believe that we're intelligent enough to keep ahead of things," says epidemiologist Shope. Nonetheless, neither he nor any of his colleagues will ever again be foolish enough to declare victory in the war against the microbes...
...team of 18 U.S. soldiers flew to a remote outpost in the Dominican Republic, under orders to monitor its border with Haiti for potential violations of a U.N. trade embargo against that country. The G.I.s are to join teams of 14 Canadians and 15 Argentines, the leading edge of a multinational force that senior U.S. officials are brandishing at Haiti's intransigent military junta. The move is the first serious attempt to enforce the embargo, which military sources say is violated daily. The most common contraband: gasoline -- 40,000 to 50,000 gallons of which flow across the 186-mile...
While some victims of rip-offs may wind up with astronomical bills, the industry tries hard to see that their subscribers don't. Most companies monitor any unusual jumps in a customer's calls and can immediately inquire whether the subscriber has made them. Harder to spot is illegal activity in large corporate accounts or small thefts that take place over time. Thus cellular companies warn consumers to watch their bills closely and report any suspicious charges. The last thing this booming industry wants is to have pirates plunder their customers and send them back to wired phones...
...kind of obsessive reluctance at every level to just let the government do its work. Evidence is growing that rather than allowing the RTC to try to recover the $47 million in lost taxpayer funds from the officers of a failed savings and loan, the Clinton team tried to monitor the agency's investigation and prevent strangers from taking control of it. White House officials plead the alternatives: they didn't try to influence the RTC probe, and besides, the investigation proceeded without obstruction anyway...
...Clinton Administration made some "regrettable" missteps in trying to monitor the Whitewater investigation, White House Counsel Lloyd Cutler told Congress on the first day of hearings into the matter. But he was quick to add that neither the President nor his staff did anything illegal or unethical when administration officials met with the Treasury Department regarding a Whitewater-related savings & loan probe. The GOP response, summed up by Wisconsin Representative Toby Roth: "This thing smells to high heaven." Expect the rhetoric to grow worse, says TIME Washington correspondent Suneel Ratan. In further hearings this week, Republicans will get a crack...