Word: monitors
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Adults can also train themselves to compensate for ADHD. Therapists working with them typically emphasize organizational skills, time management, stress reduction and ways to monitor their own distractibility and stay focused...
Simpson's highflying defense lawyer Robert Shapiro called in a team to help him through the crisis: forensic experts to go over every piece of evidence, an internist to monitor O.J.'s health and a psychiatrist to handle his deepening depression. On Friday morning Garcetti called Shapiro with word that the scientific tests were back, and that charges had been filed of first- degree murder involving special circumstances -- meaning that Simpson could get the death penalty if convicted...
Quickly rising temperatures in Antarctica back up the global-warming theory, prompting scientists to raise new concerns about the possibility of floods. British researchers who monitor conditions at the South Pole have tracked an increase of half a centigrade degree every decade. This marks the fastest mercury rise on record and a pattern that many view as a warning sign pointing to global warming. Some of the cities at risk of being deluged by melting polar ice: Sydney, Bangkok and the American ports of New Orleans and Miami...
Some time during the Benson presidency, the secret "Strengthening Church Members Committee" was created to monitor doctrinally troublesome writings and beliefs. Old-style polygamists have suffered as much as liberal Mormons from excommunication. Says Jan Shipps, a religious historian at Indiana University-Purdue University: "It's the steering of a middle course." That strict patrolling of dissent is likely to continue under the new leadership; it may even deepen. Next in the line of succession after Hunter are Benson's chief counselors, Gordon B. Hinckley, who will turn 84 this month, and Thomas Monson, 66. After them may come Boyd...
TACTICAL TWO-STEP. The pipeline deal is the first tangible gain from a tactical about-face by Saddam. After resisting efforts to monitor his capabilities for nuclear, biological and chemical warfare, he suddenly announced last November that his regime would comply fully with U.N. inspectors. Since then, Iraq appears to have done...