Word: watchdogging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...subcommittee members ultimately went along with Rogers and cleared his bill, which increases the number of NCI research centers from eight to 23, speeds up the process of awarding study grants, and takes backers of the Administration's bill off the hook by creating a presidential watchdog commission to oversee an expanded NCI. Scheduled to reach the floor of the House later this month, the bill is expected to pass. Some tough House-Senate bargaining is likely to extend into the politicking of 1972. The chances are good that some form of the legislation will be enacted before...
...program without publicly eating his words and he took the chance posthaste. Meany warned, however, that the A.F.L.-C.I.O. will not consider member unions bound to forgo strikes or court challenges against Pay Board decisions. In addition, he announced that A.F.L.-C.I.O. unions around the country will set up "watchdog units" to constantly check on how much prices rise during Phase...
...status of women at Harvard and devising ways of increasing the number of women on the faculty. Its purpose shall be to create a climate in which prejudice against women, or apathy toward their presence and future at Harvard, will be hard to maintain; it shall serve as a "watchdog" to make sure that the uttering of pious generalities is not substituted for serious efforts to hire on the basis of excellence rather than...
...support for the abortive SST, the President has done his bit for ecoactivism over the past year. His Administration suspended potentially destructive projects like the Cross-Florida Barge Canal and deferred acting on the Alaska oil pipeline. It created the Environmental Protection Agency, an important new federal watchdog. It introduced 18 environmental bills in Congress, most of which deserve speedy passage...
Four times in the past year, John Fretwell's air-conditioning equipment company in Dallas was broken into and robbed. Fretwell took to renting a Doberman pinscher watchdog for weekend duty, but at $75 a weekend, the protection itself seemed little better than petty larceny...