Word: monitorable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...creation of the two new agencies--the Office of Personnel Management and the Merits System Protection Board--is necessary because the present commission has failed both to manage the system and to monitor government workers, Campbell said...
...Washington's worst-kept secrets is that Richard Strout leads a double life. Most days, Strout is a reporter for the Christian Science Monitor, spinning out four or five articles a week for that Boston-based daily. Every Tuesday, however, he shuts his office door, sits down at his rolltop desk and becomes the pseudonymous TRB, author of the syndicated (50 newspapers) New Republic column that many colleagues call the liveliest, best-researched, most passionately liberal political commentary in town...
Last Tuesday Strout almost missed his weekly transformation. The day marked his 35th anniversary as TRB and his 80th as Richard Strout. He was toasted at breakfast by 30 capital colleagues, before lunch by his friends at the New Republic and after lunch at the Monitor, where Reader Jimmy Carter telephoned his congratulations. Strout got a late start on his column, but one would never know; as usual, TRB this week is a sprawling symphony of erudition, indignation, historical allusion and harmonic prose. His overture to a diatribe against the two-thirds Senate majority requirement for treaty approval...
Brooklyn-bred Richard Lee Strout has been rising to that task at least since the early 1920s, when, not long out of Harvard, he parked his Model T on the ellipse behind the White House and joined the local Monitor crew. He trod the White House beat while Warren G. Harding entertained Nan Britton in a coat closet, and when tight-lipped Calvin Coolidge gravely turned over a ceremonial spade of earth one Arbor Day and, asked to say a few words, pronounced: "That's a fine fishworm." He called Franklin D. Roosevelt "the greatest President of my time...
...about the same time, a joint Texas-Arkansas agency won a $77,000 grant from the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration to monitor the area's Dixie Mafia through an Organized Crime Intelligence Unit. Cooksey is one of the unit's directors. OCI's achievements have been modest, to say the least. Last year's major accomplishment, for example, was the confiscation of 225 lbs. of marijuana...