Word: watchdogging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...meat manufacturers in 1906 and auto manufacturers in 1965." To increase the pressure, a Nader group, Public Citizen Inc., last week shipped copies of a pamphlet entitled 10 Ways to Take On Your Local Bar Association to 50 consumer groups across the nation. The broadside urges formation of local watchdog units to monitor bar regulations, publication of legal directories with fee information, pressure on law firms for more pro bono publico work, and demands for lay voices in the disciplining of lawyers...
...other country. Slack management is not just a Swiss problem." What makes the case special is that no other country seeks to maintain such a mystique about its "inviolable" banking system. The scandal spotlighted the extent to which Swiss banks are trusted to police themselves. The chief external watchdog, the Bern-based Federal Banking Commission, has only twelve employees assigned to keep tabs on the industry...
...many of whom are extravagantly enthusiastic. It has also shown Soap to the press, and somehow a five-year plot projection, or "bible," has been leaked. Religious groups have quickly created a dispute about material that has not yet even survived the ABC censors. Says Everett C. Parker, TV watchdog for the United Church of Christ: "It's going to be the opening wedge for sexually explicit material in prime time." Adds Al Antczak of the Roman Catholic newspaper Tidings: ''The desecration of morality, and of the Catholic religion in particular, is an outrage that calls...
...unions and four manufacturers banded together in a Committee to Preserve American Color Television. The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers calculated that 70,000 jobs already had been lost to the Japanese imports. Last March the International Trade Commission, a six-member watchdog group appointed by the President, recommended an increase in the tariffs on Japanese sets from 5% to 25%, effective in August. Displeased by that prospect, Carter summoned his trade negotiator, Millionaire Dallas Lawyer Robert Strauss, the recently retired Democratic Party chairman. "Bob," asked the President, "why don't you see what you can work...
...South End, plundered the city despite the efforts of the Good Government reformers, the goo-goos. Frustrated because the dominant Irish voters consistently supported the machines, the goo-goos resorted to state intervention to attack corruption. One of the state-imposed safeguards was the Boston Finance Commission, a watchdog agency consisting of five Boston residents appointed by the governor "to investigate any and all matters relating to appropriations, loans, expenditures, accounts, and methods of administration affecting the city of Boston or the country of Suffolk, or any department thereof...