Information, communications, and networking technologies have all facilitated substantial advances in rational control mechanisms such as monitoring and command-and-control, while creating a hierarchy of expertise that requires deference to the more technologically sophisticated.

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Mr. LEONARD NIMOY (Actor): (As Mr. Spock) I've been monitoring your communications with Starfleet Command, Captain.

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During the spill, three shifts of employees monitoring the pipeline from the command center in Edmonton, Alberta, received multiple warning alarms, but dismissed them as being caused by column separation, or bubbles of vapor in the pipeline, according to the NTSB investigation.

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Although the government's spending plans received a fairly critical reception, most of the barbs (for once) were aimed at the chancellor and his typically labyrinthine new command-and-control systems for monitoring the journey of every tax pound.

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The MFO is a small international command, remote from the Egyptian-Israeli border, manning small monitoring outposts distant from any civilian population centers and lightly armed.

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At the San Antonio headquarters of top U.S. refiner Valero Energy, the emergency command center was alert on Saturday morning, with two dozen executives monitoring the landfall of Hurricane Rita on the Louisiana coast.

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Individual behavior is managed methodically through command-and-control mechanisms, which are supported by technology and regular monitoring.

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