Word: watchdog
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When the leggy Asian piano player played "Unforgettable" for the second time, we took action. We approached the bleached blonde watchdog monitoring events from the entrance to Syatt's party, and she explained the rules of the game...
...sides utterly uninterested in compromise -- one ablaze with the First Amendment, the other afire with populist indignation at forcing citizens to support unwelcome ideas. He was also contending with congressional demagoguery and, inside the agency, with a deputy and potential successor, Anne-Imelda Radice, widely regarded as a watchdog for the right...
...affable, unimpressive public man improbably rises to great power, and it transpires that the master of his ascent is a strong-willed watchdog of a wife with an ambition as long as her enemies list. That political scenario is as classic as Lady Macbeth and as modern as Nancy Reagan, and it was just those predecessors that Marilyn Quayle was being compared to last week. After six months of investigation by Bob Woodward and David Broder, the Washington Post unfurled a seven-part series on Vice President Dan Quayle in which most of the critical scrutiny appeared to be directed...
...Ukraine's top ideological watchdog in the 1980s, Leonid Kravchuk was responsible for stamping out all traces of nationalism. But two weeks ago, after deftly shedding his party past, Kravchuk, 57, rode a wave of nationalist sentiment to election as President of an independent Ukraine, the most powerful of the republics after Russia. Then he went one step further, joining Russia and Belorussia with a plan to form a loosely knit commonwealth...
Vellucci has served an important role over the years as a gadfly, urging Harvard University to be a better corporate citizen in Cambridge. Vellucci was far ahead of his time in establishing city watchdog groups to monitor Harvard's and MIT's biotechnology and animal research...