Word: watchdog
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...served up in their restaurant as an ingenious method of disposing of the corpse. Interesting fantasy: Render the heroic women crypto-sapphic, mutilate the men, or cook them, and reduce one to unwitting cannibal. Let the one good male in the bunch be a sort of big black watchdog, faithful and sexually neutered, probably the great grandson of Big Sam in Gone With the Wind. White women loved the movie...
...gave his party control through the tie-breaking vote of the Democratic Lieutenant Governor. A victory by the Republican Bruce Marks would + have put his party in power. "This was never about Bruce Marks and Bill Stinson," says Frederick Voight, executive director of the Committee of Seventy, a political-watchdog group. "This was about who controls the state senate. The power and the money. The stakes don't get any higher than that...
Least of all the zealous proposals by some reform-minded neophytes to limit gifts -- such as the meals and trips -- that members of Congress can accept from lobbyists. A survey by the watchdog group Public Citizen showed that in 1991 House members took 4,000 free trips, two-thirds of them paid for by corporations or trade associations...
...Ulica Piekna -- Beautiful Street. And it has got prettier. In the past four years, the Americans have installed flower beds and wooden benches for the people in line for visa interviews. Perhaps the amenities are meant to soften the disappointment: now that the communists are no longer playing watchdog, it falls to embassy personnel to limit the traffic to America. And although roughly 10 times as many people will be granted visas this year as were in 1987, veterans of Ulica Piekna say half of those waiting here will be turned down...
Foxx said he recognizes a minister's temptation to be more politically involved but emphasized that the proper role is to be a "watchdog or a moral and ethical advocate as opposed to 'buying...