Word: watchdogging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...former Polaroid employees and members of a national ID watchdog group demonstrated yesterday against Harvard's use of ID cards and attacked the new science center as a "symbol of Polaroid's key support of the apartheid in South Africa...
Testimony by legislators, lawyers, press organizations and others overwhelmingly favored prompt congressional action. Without a sound law, they argued, sources of information would simply dry up out of fear of being exposed. Only the right of silence would leave the press free to fulfill its traditional watchdog mission. As one example, William Small of CBS testified that the network had been forced recently to drop a segment of a program on welfare fraud when it could not promise its informant anonymity...
...newspaper's findings set off a state investigation and resulted in widening the federal inquiry, which produced indictments of 40 political small fry. An election watchdog group brought suit to place Kusper's board under court supervision...
...committee procedure is designed to help the President judge a candidate's qualifications and ensure that the department has checked outside the University in searching for the most eminent scholar available. The system also helps watchdog the distribution of tenure appointments among the fields within a department. Sometimes a department selects more than one name and asks the President and the ad hoc committee to choose the best person. More often, it proposes one candidate and requests his confirmation...
...that the Harvard Faculty should work to greatly increase the number of women in its ranks. Along with this resolution, the Faculty endorsed the idea of a Permanent Committee on Women which would "suggest ways of increasing the number of women on the Faculty" and also serve as a watchdog over the status of women at Harvard. In response to the Faculty move Dunlop appointed a five-member committee...