Word: watchdog
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...attacking Thornhill and Palmer's argument, Berry says that he and Coyne are "just doing a watchdog...
...business groups looking to limit their liability had for years been pouring money into the issue, helping create a pro-tort reform majority in the state senate. (The groups gave generously to Bush. In his two gubernatorial campaigns, he collected $4.1 million from tort-reform lobbyists, according to the watchdog group Texans for Public Justice--10% of his total contributions...
...insists the program is a success, and the corporations that dodged regulation seem to agree. So far, lobbyists, lawyers and executives for companies operating the 100 worst grandfathered plants have contributed more than $1 million to his presidential campaign, according to an analysis by Public Research Works, an Austin watchdog group. "They're hoping Bush will be making environmental policy at the national level next year," says the group's executive director, Robin Schneider...
...announcement as a preemptive strike against Microsoft's possible breakup into three smaller firms as the result of the government's antitrust case. The thought of a merger that would let Microsoft Explorer guide users to more and more sites filled with Microsoft-owned content terrified business watchdog groups. But by laying out the we'll-concentrate-on-software path, Microsoft gets to cast its own image - as a group of techno-nerds made good, led by the man who just stepped down as CEO to devote himself to software design full-time...
...government's human rights abuses. In past years, the United States has come under heavy criticism for the strength of its anti-encryption legislation. Rules against both the exportation of such software and its use at home have been stringent enough to warrant the attention of free speech watchdog groups around the globe. One of the most respected of these groups, the Global Internet Liberty Campaign, gave the U.S. a "yellow rating" for 1999, indicating that our legal structure provides for only a "satisfactory" exchange of free ideas on the Web. It's been a shamefully poor showing...