Word: monitors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bosnian Serb military held the Christian Science Monitor reporter on espionage charges from October 29 to November 7 after finding him taking pictures of an alleged grave for massacred Bosnian Muslims...
Visually impaired students can benefit from large monitors, talking computers and a Braille printer. For course items such as textbooks which are not computerized, the ATL can scan in material for students and convert it into electronic form. Blind students can then choose to enlarge the text on the monitor or have the computer read the text to them...
Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan warned that the U.S. would strictly monitor foreign banks in the wake of the Daiwa and Barings bank scandals. The Fed expelled Daiwa from the United States last month for covering up $1.1 billion in trading losses, while Britain's Barings collapsed amid losses by a single trader. Greenspan told a House Banking subcommittee exploring U.S. regulators' failure to detect the Daiwa losses that stronger internal controls are needed in a complex global banking system in which such internal failures can quickly cause wider financial havoc. "Whenever something like the Daiwa scandal occurs, congressional leaders...
...brought them in on five separate visits, for five days each. We wanted to monitor them at different times in their cycle, to monitor the progression of their cycle. The first day was for getting accustomed to the lab and was a regular day. The second day, we started the light therapy. [This meant] turning it up very bright, then turning it off for brief periods of time. We would get blood drawn every hour to see how hormone levels change," Wu says...
Huynh, who as a technician had less input into the research process, says, "It was interesting at first but after a while everything got very repetitive and menial...I usually had the night shift so I didn't really see anyone."CrimsonMary W. Lu Technicians monitor the subjects in the studies from a high-tech control room...