Word: monitors
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Hickenlooper's honeymoon has not been without flare-ups. Before he took office, Denver's police department had been facing public criticism over allegations that officers were using excessive force. Hickenlooper appointed a task force to look into the matter and recently nominated a civilian monitor to oversee and critique internal police investigations. Civil-liberties groups complain that the civilian monitor lacks enforcement authority...
...part to a Soviet complaint that a recent U.S. underground test of a nuclear device had exceeded the 150-kiloton limit permissible under the 1974 Treaty on the Limitation of Underground Nuclear Weapon Tests, President Reagan, in a letter to Gorbachev, invited the Soviet Union to send experts to monitor the next U.S. test in Nevada. That essentially painless suggestion, similar to an offer Reagan made last year, was intended to show U.S. goodwill in developing arms-control-verification procedures that Washington has long sought...
...Soviets have good reason to try to deflect attention from their record. Nearly all the groups that sprang up behind the Iron Curtain to monitor compliance with the Helsinki accords have been crushed. By 1982, 17 of the 20 members of the Moscow Helsinki Watch Group had been imprisoned, forced to emigrate or exiled within the Soviet Union. The remaining three reluctantly disbanded the organization, admitting, "The group cannot fulfill its duties." The New York City-based Helsinki Watch Committee this month cited estimates that as many as 10,000 political prisoners still languish in Soviet jails and labor camps...
Later, Edwards stressed the need to monitor and regulate U.S. loan companies...
...joke." If investigators had talked to just one his friends, he testified, they would have found a "room full disillusioned longhairs, counter culture falconers, druggie surfers, several wounded, paranoid vets, pot-smoking, anti-Establishment types." Instead, Boyce was not only hired but was assigned to monitor secret worldwide communications between...