Word: ombudsman
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...City Council subcommittee will recommend Monday the hiring of an ombudsman and additional staff for the Cambridge Rent Control Board, in an effort to ease communications problems and reduce a backlog of pending cases...
Sullivan said "pretty widespread support" for an ombudsman existed on the council...
Carter's low popular standing has brought on one of those self-conscious self-examinations that the press constantly undergoes: Seeing Carter's troubles, has the press deliberately built up Ted Kennedy? To such an accusation from a Washington Post reader, the paper's ombudsman, Charles B. Seib, pleads not guilty...
Kennedy, to be sure, generates plenty of copy with his energetic Senate activities. But at times it almost seems as if the press wants to build up Kennedy as a presidential prospect because that would make covering the nominating process far more interesting. Says Washington Post Ombudsman Charles Seib: "If there isn't a fight, we'll make...
...wages and prices. He prefers to leave the handling of 7% wage guidelines and the figuring out of profit margins to Barry Bosworth, the Council on Wage and Price Stability director, another academic who is temperamentally unsuited for the job. Instead, Kahn sees his role as an inflation ombudsman. He says that he wants to restrain Government activities that foster inflation. Kahn plans on cutting regulation, loosening up building codes, freeing land use and promoting more competition among public utilities...