Word: watchdogging
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...capita has decreased by 2.5% annually over the past eight years. While the economies in other populous developing countries such as India and China roar ahead, crucial foreign investors continue to shun Indonesia due to the threat of terrorism, rampant corruption (a survey conducted last year by Berlin-based watchdog Transparency International ranked Indonesia as the 12th most corrupt country in the world), an often whimsical legal system, high labor costs and an obstructionist bureaucracy poisonous to commerce. Last year, investors pulled $597 million in investment capital out of Indonesia; a net $13.6 billion has fled since...
Facing 30 days imprisonment and a $100 fine, James A. Herms—head of the controversial police watchdog group Student-Alumni Committee on Institutional Security Policy—was arraigned Friday on trespassing charges filed against him by Harvard University...
...year - was gathering force in the Atlantic . Respite from the big storms might not come until Nov. 30, when the all-too-memorable 2004 hurricane season finally recedes into history. - By J. Madeleine Nash A Watchful Eye UNITED NATIONS The U.N.'s nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, called on Iran to immediately cease all uranium enrichment-related activities at a key meeting of the 35 nation group in Vienna . Iran, which denied U.S. claims that its enrichment activities were part of a weapons program and insisted that its program is for peaceful energy production, said it would consider...
...James A. Herms of the Student-Alumni Committee on Institutional Security Policy, an independent watchdog group, said HUPD has improved but is still not doing enough...
...notion of Big Pharma cowering before the feds is a bit of a stretch, considering its army of lobbyists encamped in Washington--a total of 526, about one for every member of Congress, according to a report issued last week by the watchdog group Public Citizen. Despite the siege mentality at the conference--and fears of a shortage of blockbusters in the pipeline just as several billion-dollar drugs get ready to come off patent--the industry remains one of America's healthiest. U.S. prescription-drug sales grew 11.5% last year, to $216 billion; the top 10 pharmaceutical firms netted...