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...Calixto pays an outside watch-dog firm, the London-based Trademarks Directory Service, to monitor the trademark applications in almost every country. When a company attempts to file a trademark application with the name Harvard anywhere in the world, Calixto says he is alerted almost immediately...
...February, the Department of Veterans' Affairs also launched an investigation in response to letters from Bodkin's representative, Barney Frank '61 (D-Mass.), and the non-profit government watch-dog group, the Project on Government Oversight...
...said the fact that the state-run process has only been monitored by state agencies is tantamount to "letting the fox guard the hen house." "We have to be in essence the watch-dog here," he said...
...fact that AIA grew out of a media watch-dog organization casts suspicion on its intentions. AIA was founded to trace the origin of a supposed liberal bias in education using the same methods as its media-watching parent organization. Malcolm Lawrence, president of AIA, draws the parallel between media and education: "The classroom can be compared to a newspaper. The professor is the source of information or service for which the student pays...
Regardless of the court's ruling, the opposition movement has begun to shift to a watch-dog stance, accepting an operating plant as a reality but refusing to believe that it will be safe. Dr. John G. Hermos, co-chairman of the NOMATEP coalition, said recently. Hermos added that his group will mount a new campaign of monitoring pollution levels in amassing related data in hopes of pressuring state authorities to enact new restrictions on the plant...