Word: watchdogging
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...national healthcare program (see MEDICINE), which would add $5.9 billion a year to federal spending. Probably the most important feature of the Government's decision was that, although legislative authority for controls would be allowed to expire, the Administration would keep the Cost of Living Council as a watchdog agency to monitor price changes...
Shining Example. Most reviewers praised NBC for its journalistic enterprise. (The show later received a George Foster Peabody Award as a "shining example of constructive and superlative investigative reporting.") But Accuracy In Media, a nonprofit, nonpartisan (though generally conservative) group in Washington that acts as a self-appointed watchdog on press performance, protested. AIM Executive Secretary Abraham H. Kalish, a former professor at the U.S. Defense Intelligence School, formally complained to the FCC that the NBC program gave "a grotesquely distorted picture" of the private pension systems in the U.S. He contended that AIM'S monitoring of NBC programs...
...There was new criticism of the Government-paid improvements on Nixon's homes at Key Biscayne, Fla., and San Clemente, Calif. Last week the General Accounting Office, the congressional watchdog agency that monitors spending, charged that some of the $1.4 million spent at the two residences increased the value of the property but did little to protect the President. GAO officials maintain that Nixon should personally have borne at least part of the nearly $24,000 for landscape maintenance, $19,300 for building a private railroad crossing and cabana, $8,400 for property surveys, $10,600 for driveway paving...
...hospitals where surgery is performed, perhaps 4,500 have a watchdog peer review or "tissue committee." If an undue proportion of the organs removed by a surgeon are found healthy, he gets rapped over the knuckles and is expected to reform. But too many tissue committees are far too lenient. Knowing the imprecision of medicine and their own fallibility, the members are apt to say "There but for the grace of God go I," and let the matter drop...
...lack of an effective Republican presence in Cambridge hurts both those who seek strong alternatives on issues and an effective partisan watchdog. But there have been some recent glimmers of life in the Cambridge GOP. The Democrat/Republican margin in the last three presidential elections has narrowed: 10 to 1 in 1964, 5 to 1 in 1968, and 3 to 1 in 1972. One fourth of the current Harvard freshman class has indicated some interest in joining the Harvard Republican Club. The club now has a community action chairman, and some of its members worked with Cambridge Republicans on State Senator...