Word: watchdog
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...which Reagan has gotten a lot of propaganda mileage--careful checking of sources, or holding off on the front-page headlines for stronger evidence is crucial to maintaining a credible press. As we all learned in high school, the press is supposed to be a "watchdog" of government, but it isn't if it wags its tail and licks Reagan's face every time he throws it a bone...
James Bush, a retired captain and now associate director of the Center for Defense Information, a private Pentagon watchdog group, said any radioactivity from the nuclear reactors would be diluted...
...Bell concurs, more or less. "Befriending Simon Geller," he says, "is like befriending an extremely tough, seemingly tired, apparently less than healthy watchdog. Some days he'd let you pet him, and some days he'd bite. And he is so very tenacious...
...vote, the court held that turning budget-cutting authority over to the Comptroller General violated the principle of separation of powers by vesting Executive Branch authority in a Legislative Branch official. The Comptroller General is the director of the General Accounting Office, Congress's chief watchdog on federal programs. Though appointed by the President to a 15-year term, he can be removed from office only by Congress. That power of dismissal, wrote outgoing Chief Justice Warren Burger in his final opinion for the court, means that the Comptroller General is "subservient" to Congress and cannot be entrusted with Executive...
...according to the court's decision, wrongly empowers a congressional official, the comptroller general, to perform an executive function. The comptroller general, appointed by the president, heads Congress' General Accounting Office, a watchdog agency that audits federal programs...