Word: watchdogging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though the renewed coalition will force an almost equal division of Cabinet posts with the People's Party, Kreisky has forsworn any return to the old Proporz (proportional) system of previous coalitions. Under that system, every Minister had to accept a watchdog state secretary from the other party, and government jobs all the way down to janitor were divided along party lines...
...blight overpowering. When Baltimore Builder Allen Quille, himself a black, set out to rehabilitate one area in order to sell it to black tenants, neighborhood gangs broke in nightly to steal the fixtures, then sold them back to him the next day. He built a fence and bought a watchdog; they stole the dog. Quille put the ringleader on his payroll, and the youth demanded huge raises...
...return to the old wage-price guidelines. Advocates admit that the guidelines collapsed while the Johnson Administration pushed a clearly inflationary budget policy, but assert that they would be much more effective when combined with the present credit curbs and tight budget. Heller suggests that Nixon set up a "watchdog" agency in which business and labor leaders would join in setting "ground rules" for what might be acceptable wage and price increases. He also urges that Nixon adopt the policy of "phone calls, behind-the-scenes confrontations and friendly arm twisting" that Lyndon Johnson followed. Okun claims that such methods...
Each day brings more new evidence that the U.S. urban dweller conducts his life as though in an armed camp. In New York last week, a court ruled that a woman tenant could keep a watchdog in her apartment, in violation of her lease, because of "the present circumstances of rampant crime." Schools around the U.S. have been hiring guards to protect students. In Washington, D.C., a 15-year-old junior high school student was shot to death recently in his school by a classmate...
Press Council. The report's most sweeping proposal is that a press council, independent of the media and Government (but without disciplinary powers), be set up as a public watchdog for all news outlets. Describing this as "a first step toward government over-lordship," the New York Daily News cried: "The late Adolf Hitler and Dr. Joe Goebbels would have loved that." The suggestion hardly goes that far, but there are two important counts against it. Such bodies rarely prove effective and, in this particular case, the council's independence might be suspect because its members would initially...