Word: watchdogging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Watchdog Onus. In some larger cities, blacks now have the power to turn an election their way by voting as a bloc, much as have labor unions, ethnic groups and businessmen. No one knows that better than Atlanta Mayor Sam Massell, who was elected with more than 90% of the black vote last fall-fully half of his overall total. Much of the rest of his support came from labor unions, attracted by the promises of economic progress held out by the liberal Massell. In New Orleans last April, Mayor Moon Landrieu was elected on a similar black-labor-liberal...
Died. Milburn P. Akers, 70, longtime (1949-65) managing editor and editor of the Chicago Sun-Times; of injuries suffered when the car he was driving collided with a truck; near Hopedale, Ill. Akers saw the press as society's watchdog and became famous for his Chicago crusades against brutal police and crooked politicians...
...budget has been trimmed by $10 billion to meet the scrutiny of a Congress alerted by Proxmire's probing. Proxmire gives too little credit to honorable men within the Administration, both in and out of uniform, who are as earnestly devoted to keeping down costs as any congressional watchdog...
...publishing ethics. (One grievance the reporters plan to raise is the assignment of so-called puff pieces to support ads in special sections.) Some young reporters are skeptical of the committee's effectiveness. With staffers from the Rocky Mountain News, they are trying to start their own watchdog journal, along the lines of the Chicago Journalism Review...
...attack took the form of a 293-page report called The Chemical Feast. It was based on a two-year study of the FDA by Consumer Watchdog Ralph Nader and 20 student volunteers, most of them specialists in medicine and law. Their report accused the agency of conspiring with the food industry to defraud consumers and even to endanger their health; FDA regulations, they argued, read like a catalogue of favors to special interests. Specifically, the agency was accused of allowing the sale of "enriched white flour" that is actually stripped of most nutrients, of permitting meat packers to increase...