Word: watchdog
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...ease the public's fear of flying, the FAA asked the Flight Safety Foundation, a nonprofit watchdog group based in Arlington, Va., to conduct a three-month study of air safety. At the same time, the National Transportation Safety Board, an independent federal agency, announced that it will begin its own investigation of the skyways. The board's review was prompted by both PATCO's charges and congressional worries over safety in the skies. Explained Board Spokesman Barbara Dixon: "Since people were raising questions about safety, we felt obligated to take a look...
...holes punched in it by a computer. When someone inserts the card into a small box on his room door, a battery-powered electric motor opens the latch. When a customer checks out of the hotel or reports his card missing, the computer changes his room combination. The electronic watchdog has a total of 4 billion constantly changing combinations. Managers at hotels using computer keys say that the system has virtually eliminated larceny...
...symbolize the dramatic change in his lifestyle. He is happily ensconced in a penthouse near Bonn. His close companion is Brigitte Seebacher, a young party activist who insists that he exercise daily and maintain his diet, and who takes him to her own hairdresser. Brandt affectionately calls Seebacher "my watchdog...
...signatories; 2) a commitment to forge other international agreements to combat proliferation; 3) a commitment to "inhibit the transfer of sensitive nuclear material, equipment and technology" from the nuclear haves to the havenots; and 4) a pledge of strong support for the world's only nuclear weapons watchdog, the U.N.-sponsored International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA...
...manner and caustic of tongue. Sometimes, Kitchen grasps the nettle of truth with blazing lucidity; at other times, he stumbles through a fog bank of displaced memories. The people around him, his daughter Mathilda (Sheila Ballantine), his wealthy son-in-law Benson (Gerald Flood), who grudgingly houses him, his watchdog companion Bristol (Edward Judd), whom Kitchen believes to be a So viet spy, and his granddaughter Gloria (Marty Cruickshank) are not full-fleshed characters but more like ghostly presences. Storey utilizes them like light switches to illuminate the rooms of Kitchen's past...