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...unions and four manufacturers banded together in a Committee to Preserve American Color Television. The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers calculated that 70,000 jobs already had been lost to the Japanese imports. Last March the International Trade Commission, a six-member watchdog group appointed by the President, recommended an increase in the tariffs on Japanese sets from 5% to 25%, effective in August. Displeased by that prospect, Carter summoned his trade negotiator, Millionaire Dallas Lawyer Robert Strauss, the recently retired Democratic Party chairman. "Bob," asked the President, "why don't you see what you can work...
...South End, plundered the city despite the efforts of the Good Government reformers, the goo-goos. Frustrated because the dominant Irish voters consistently supported the machines, the goo-goos resorted to state intervention to attack corruption. One of the state-imposed safeguards was the Boston Finance Commission, a watchdog agency consisting of five Boston residents appointed by the governor "to investigate any and all matters relating to appropriations, loans, expenditures, accounts, and methods of administration affecting the city of Boston or the country of Suffolk, or any department thereof...
Advocates of a federal Agency for Consumer Advocacy have never had easy going. Since 1970, bills to create such a watchdog have passed the House or Senate several times, only to wither in conference committees or under threat of a presidential veto. But persistence pays. Last week the future suddenly seemed brighter when President Carter, fulfilling a campaign promise, called for setting up a federal body to guard consumer interests...
...left the post in 1969, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has had no fewer than five chairmen, a measure of the job's toughness during a time of reform in the securities industry. Last week President Carter designated still another boss as the nation's securities watchdog: Harold M. Williams, 49, the brilliant dean of U.C.L.A.'S Graduate School of Management and former chairman of Norton Simon Inc., the consumer-products conglomerate. After his expected confirmation by the Senate, Williams will replace Roderick M. Hills, chairman since 1975, who had told Carter that he wanted...
...spit," he used to say. In addition to many distinguished ancestors, Boeth can also claim a petticoat thief in New Amsterdam (fined 20 guilders for the deed). And Chicago Bureau Chief Benjamin Cate enjoys recalling, among his Puritan precursors, one William ("Whiskey") Cate, who earned his moniker as the watchdog of sobriety in colonial Boston. "During his lifetime, he confiscated many bottles of booze," says Cate. "When old Bill finally died, they found that all those hundreds of bottles were still in the basement-and all empty...