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...making an appearance at this high-value target (and not dribbling one into the dirt the way his father did at the Astrodome in 1986), Bush defined the new normalcy better than the many other voices in his Administration have done. Our terrorist ombudsmen have produced as many catatonic citizens as informed ones, bogging us down in a quagmire of nose swabs, bomb-damage assessments and vague warnings. When one of them says go about your business calmly but be on the lookout for anything suspicious, people lose their calm and flee indoors, where at least they know the NutraSweet...
...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...