Word: watchdog
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There was the faithful watchdog, barking and ready to bite. There was the burglar, doing his best to scurry away from the premises. There was the cop, who raised his pistol, took careful aim-and shot the watchdog...
...Delaware's Republican Senator John J. Williams, who has won a reputation as Capitol Hill's finest investigator of crockery in government, this was the way things seemed about to turn out last week. Williams was the watchdog. Bobby Baker was the burglar. The Senate's Democratic-controlled Rules Committee...
...years-ago. Significantly, Shelepin is now the only man in the leadership who simultaneously holds top rank in the Presidium, the Secretariat and the Council of Ministers-a tripod power base that Khrushchev alone previously enjoyed. As chairman of the Party and State Control Committee, Shelepin is also the watchdog of Russia's entire economic and administrative life, and his chairmanship of the State Control Committee gives him handcuff control over party apparatus...
Ferocious Fairness. "But the privileges we claim for ourselves at every step are based on the old conception of ourselves as the public's watchdog, as the men a little outside our society, measuring it with a pinch of skepticism. If the press conferences become less productive because they are more polite, the fault may be ours. To be fair is not enough any more. We must be ferociously fair...
...suggestion, threat or litigation, the agencies can shake and reshape industries. The SEC in particular has recently been a tough watchdog on Wall Street. FTC's summary order to cigarette makers to put health warnings on packages and in their advertising has raised a storm that is headed for the courts. The ICC has so far held up the badly wanted merger of the Pennsylvania and New York Central railroads, and the CAB has turned thumbs down on the plans of American and Eastern airlines to merge...