Word: ombudsmen
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...good news is that this is changing; disclosure has become a popular mantra. The corporate scandals have given rise to a slew of shareholders' lawsuits. In 1994 Toshiaki Takahashi formed a national group of "citizens' ombudsmen" to combat corruption and gain access to the government's books. His organization has brought down officials for everything from construction-bid rigging to faking expense receipts. "The need for public disclosure has finally begun to disseminate," said Takahashi in a recent speech...
...part, the College has proposed a compromise that would permanently recognize the Board of Trustees as PBHA's governing body-the Board has been operating on a trial basis-and would create a Board of Ombudsmen to mediate disputes between PBHA and the College...
...part, the College has proposed a compromise that would permanently recognize the Board of Trustees as PBHA's governing body-the Board has been operating on a trial basis-and would create a Board of Ombudsmen to mediate disputes between PBHA and the College...
...College brought a counter-proposal to the meeting which permanently recognized the board of trustees as PBHA's governing body--the compromise agreement did so only on an experimental basis--and called for the creation of a ombudsmen board to mediate future disagreements between PBHA and the College...
Johnson said he hopes that community policing by Harvard will grow to the point where the department can reserve some police officers as ombudsmen for the Cambridge community, acting to help residents resolve persistent problems or annoyances--such as safety hazards--in their areas...