Word: monitorable
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Such a system would involve a fleet of ships and a chain of automatic sensing buoys, plus aerial photography and satellite observation. The system would be used to spot the source of pollutants like oil, mercury and lead. It would also monitor oxygen levels in the seas and "red tides," the abnormal growth of phytoplankton that can choke out other forms of marine life. Obviously, such a system will need the political support of nations that now exploit and degrade the seas...
...Harvard and other universities will presumably understand that the CRRC fully intends to monitor research in the Black community," Jones added...
Gary H. Barnes, author of the article and editor of the newspaper, charged that the university police were ordered by Chief of Campus Security Frederick Barrett to monitor activities of militant students. He said that Barrett passed the information to "close friends...
...license for political harassment and an invasion of privacy. But he also presents it as a paradigm of police inefficiency. It may take 20 men to install one tap, often by breaking and entering the suspect's home, plus as many as six more men to monitor the tap, often for months and months in which they could be gathering solid evidence instead of recording mostly innocent chatter. Clark's Justice Department shunned bugging-but in 1968 somehow managed to indict 1,166 figures from organized crime, a record-breaking total for the decade...
...Loeb's scheme, computers would monitor the odds for all U.S. sporting events, detect suspicious swings of big money and thus discourage fixes. Customers could dial a bet and have the transaction entered on their phone bills. The Government would not pay bribes, which cost the Mob about $2 billion a year. It could make winnings tax-free and still get by with a 10% to 20% rake-offless than half the Mob's reported take. In short, the Government could offer better odds. As Loeb figures it, the Government might net $15 billion a year...