Word: watchdogged
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard's watchdog committee is composed of faculty members, students, a doctor, a lawyer, a Cambridge City Planner, and two UHS administrators. All experimenters using human subjects are required to submit their proposals to this committee. Some decisions are clearly determined by FAS guidelines--especially those which involve the use of "physical stimuli, in abnormal amounts," the ingestion of toxic materials, or illegal drugs. But the majority of the cases are not so clearcut. The committee sizes up the issues, and makes its judgement...
...legality, if a situation came up in which they felt the research was valuable enough, they would probably allow the risk of much possible harm. In the area of human experimentation, morality is becoming bureaucratized, and ethics institutionalized. Research is king. Like an over-anxious mother, Harvard's watchdog committee examines, modifies and then approves of everything that comes its way. Fortunately there are no Milgrams in the research community...
...principle of accountability involves, for Bundy, a massive contradiction. If the public truly does become an efficient watchdog over the Executive, this would mean that the initial impulse for social change would always have to come from the masses themselves. Bundy's implied judgment-- that giving a veto power to the public would mean the end of all social action-- is clearly correct, given the present level of social awareness of the American people...
...most recent report of the GAO--Congress's financial watchdog--has received the most publicity. Published in November, it established that 23 defense contractors, including Boeing Company, Sikorsky Aircraft, and Sperry Gyroscope Company, have violated a series of government regulations on the use of defense equipment. These 23 contractors hold $1 billion in government property, in addition to special tooling and special test equipment valued at $347 million. Both the GAO and the Joint Economic Committee say that the conduct of the 23 contractors is "representative" of the 5,500 contractors holding $15 billion in government property...
...million in U.S. Treasury bonds, Japan $500 million. A task force headed by New Mexico Publisher Robert McKinney, former Ambassador to Switzerland, was looking into ways to lure more foreign tourists to the U.S. The Commerce Department was recruiting a force of dozens of specialists to watchdog U.S. investments abroad...