Word: watchdogging
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...watchdog group accused Harvard’s research laboratories of being one of the country’s worst violators of animal rights in a report released this week. Stop Animal Exploitation NOW! (SAEN) cited 32 federal violations by Harvard in a nine-month period. The violations included cases in which a “researcher strangled a primate through negligence, monkeys are deprived of water, rabbits and wallaby’s receive improper anesthesia.” A Harvard Medical School spokesman, Don L. Gibbons, contested the validity of the report, claiming that all but one of the violations...
...pedagogical deficiency, they must recognize that, at the end of the day, the onus of responsibility will fall squarely on their shoulders.The Task Force recognize that its job is not done. Instead of publishing its report and dissolving, the Task Force needs to be an active voice and watchdog, its mission unfinished until FAS treats teaching as a primary, not secondary, responsibility.In an otherwise commendable effort, we have only one direct criticism of the Task Force’s report: It does not fully consider the role of full-time teachers such as lecturers and preceptors. The report does dismiss...
...authority, parliament concluded, appeared best suited to serving the industry. (For companies operating in the U.S. and much of Europe, no such single body exists.) The fsa's remit: working with firms to pinpoint potential risks long before things go wrong, rather than simply prescribing rules. While the U.K. watchdog listens, suggest industry representatives, U.S. regulators prefer to bark. The U.S. Sarbanes-Oxley Act, a 2002 response to the accounting scandals that toppled Enron and WorldCom, was intended to stiffen standards of corporate governance in public firms. In reality, the cumbersome auditing requirements - not to mention the cost and time...
...camera zoomed in on a cheering blond woman in the crowd. She had black patches under her eyes (the kind football players wear for the glare) and sported a black T-shirt with "F--- Da Eagles" printed on it in gold. The Parents Television Council, a decency watchdog group founded by conservative commentator Brent Bozell, wasn't amused, particularly by the fact that the network lingered on the fan for several seconds before cutting away. It has been mobilizing its members to file complaints with the Federal Communications Commission, which so far has received 8,000 alone via the council...
...Naxalites and Nepal's Maoists-the Philippine rebels have survived because they are primarily fueled not by foreign ideology but by domestic realities: poverty, corruption, unemployment. Some 40% of Filipinos live on less than $2 a day, while a tenth of the 87 million population seeks work abroad. Corruption watchdog Transparency International ranks the Philippines near the bottom of its corruption index, alongside Nepal and Rwanda. The N.P.A. promotes communism as the only cure for the Philippines' many ills, but even Filipinos who reject its cause still share its grievances...