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LeRoy did spend several hundred thousand dollars on architectural plans, legal fees and so on, but there had to be protracted negotiations with the city parks department and the Bryant Park Restoration Corp. and the New York Public Library (which adjoins the park) and all the private watchdog groups that doggedly keep watch over the fall of every sparrow. After nearly four years of effort and expense, with no actual building begun and no end in sight, LeRoy this spring abandoned the whole project. "The process has so many hands in it that it is terribly hard to do without...
...Brotherly chill down more than a few spines. To keep the Government out of the electronic dossier and blacklist business, the Privacy Act of 1974 prohibited federal agencies from exchanging data about private citizens without their consent. Yet the Administration, despite the protests of the A.C.L.U. and other watchdog groups, is planning to expand further its computer matching efforts to include families applying for college loans, veterans using VA hospitals and rural families asking the Farmers Home Administration for low-interest housing loans...
...David Williams, his press secretary, said that most voters "don't know a hell of a lot" about the $60,000-a-year office. "There hasn't been a real race for Auditor in 46 years," he said. The successor to departing Auditor, John Finnegan, will serve as a "watchdog" over government programs' budgets...
...Committee, has gone a step further. He lambasted a variety of federal regulators by letter for their performance in overseeing accountants responsible for auditing the books of U.S. banks and thrift institutions. Admits Philip Chenok, president of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the profession's self- regulating watchdog: "These are very difficult times...
...boycotting the election. Last week the N.D.F. criticized Aquino's Cabinet choices but admitted in a press statement that the ouster of Marcos was a "significant victory in the Filipino people's struggle for genuine democracy and national independence." Bayan announced that it planned to play a "watchdog" role, apparently without sabotaging Aquino's efforts. But it was not lost on Bayan leaders that their absence from the Aquino campaign rules out a share of the spoils. Said one: "If we had participated, we could have easily meshed with Cory's organization...