Word: watchdogged
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even if adopted, Pastore's watchdog plan could prove about as effective as having the National Rifle Association regulate gun sales. Only 399 of the nation's 619 TV stations subscribe to the N.A.B. Code. It has no control at all over program syndicators, not to mention 220 individual stations producing their own programs. Even where it would have authority, the N.A.B. body would confront an enormous task. Either it would try to supervise the entire production process for every TV show or it would be forced to rely on each network to submit its most controversial programs...
...President's special commendation last month-and stirred considerable controversy-when he warned that if demonstrators at Notre Dame broke the law, they would have 20 minutes either to repent or be expelled. Though it has no direct power, the commission nevertheless has considerable influence as a watchdog agency; its annual reports have often spotlighted patterns of discrimination...
...Complaints. On June 1, with the approval of Japan's rather toothless antitrust watchdog, the Fair Trade Commission, Fuji and Yawata will form the New Japan Steel Co., the world's second largest steel company after U.S. Steel Corp. Last year the two partners produced 25 million tons v. U.S. Steel's 32 million; they had sales of $2.5 billion. Under the presidency of Yoshihiro Inayama, now the chief of Yawata, the new company will employ 80,000 people in ten huge, highly integrated mills throughout Japan...
...putting George Wallace in charge of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division. The Labor Board is essential to union growth and to labor's power to bargain. It provides the only impartial supervision for the organizing elections that decide if a plant is to become union. Without a watchdog, unions could hardly win an election, for an employer's mere suggestion that if the union came in he might close down business is often enough to keep workers from voting for the union...
...severe. They argue that the FTC's billing as guardian of consumer rights convicts the commission of misleading advertising-one of the principal sins it is supposed to eliminate. With only 1,170 employees and a paltry $16 million budget, the commission, they charge, is a toothless watchdog with a sorry record of too little protection too late...