Word: monitors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Councillor Cyr expressed his concern about thelack of enforcement of existing nose levelrestrictions, noting that for the past two months,city officials had not been present in the squareto monitor street performances...
None of these qualms, however, are likely to slow the relentless race toward global electronic trading. If handled correctly, the new systems could lead to markets that are more efficient and easier to monitor and police for fraud. In any event, the scenes of traders wildly waving pieces of paper from the floor pits will give way to those of traders around the world furiously typing orders into computers...
...reformers have made significant strides in streamlining the bloated bureaucracy. At least 140 functionaries used to monitor science developments for the party, union and republican authorities; now there are just 19. Still, in trying to respond as quickly as possible to the constant barrage of daily crises, Yeltsin's men have inadvertently created a bureaucratic jumble of their own, superimposing new agencies on top of old ones. Draft laws and decrees circulate among the government ministries, Golovkov's administration and a third, separate state legal bureau. Explains Justice Minister Fedorov: "We are experimenting with new institutions. Many will not survive...
...that the number of women and minority faculty is suspiciously tiny and that the Law School should be doing everything possible to diversify. Documents detailing the procedures and criteria of appointments meetings would show whether the school is really playing fair and would allow administrators and students to monitor its progress...
Britain's National Rivers Authority has been especially active. Its interest persuaded the electronics industry to come up with a briefcase-size monitor that can be used on a riverbank to measure the amount of dissolved oxygen and ammonia in the water, along with its acidity and turbidity. The authority also spurred the development of a remote-sensing water monitor, as well as an experimental technique that injects iron into stream beds to neutralize polluting phosphates. All three inventions are considered good export prospects...