Word: ombudsman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scheduled for 1.4 million federal employees this fall; open more federally owned timberland to cutting by private companies in order to increase supplies and hold down the price of lumber; pledge resistance to restrictions on trade; appoint a Cabinet-level "inflation czar" to function as a sort of federal ombudsman who would call attention to excessive Government spending...
...would charge a slight pollution tax to cover its administrative expenses. Because the pollution tax would be graduated by the level of risk the manufacturer posed to human health, each manufacturer would know precisely how dangerous its product was. The proposed legislation would also set up an Office of Ombudsman, which would provide industry with the latest data and research on safer and less costly anti-pollution technologies...
...question. I'll duck that," says Post Publisher Katharine Graham. "In general, papers should find news as much as they can. If they find it, they should publish it." Has she told her Post editors not to pursue the Nixon book? "Heck, no," said Graham. Besides, as Post Ombudsman Charles Seib wrote only half-jokingly in his press commentary last week, the paper now has a reputation to uphold. Said he: "It is obvious what the Post must do if it is not to lose face...
...addition to her role as ombudsman for woman's ice hockey, Worsley has been trying to get together a Bible study meeting of athletes. "I see the fellowship as a relationship with a bunch of people, not an activity. Fellowship is the best word for it," she said. Worsley no longer serves as an executive in the organization but she plays guitar at every Friday night prayer-meeting...
...misguided. We wouldn't do it." Yet some might. "We're rethinking our whole position," says Dave Lanzettel, city editor of the Portland (Me.) Express, which last year identified a 27-year-old rape victim. The Boston Globe names names when the victim is well known. Says Ombudsman Charles Whipple: "If the Governor's daughter were raped, don't think we wouldn't print...