Word: watchdogging
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...creator—the Student-Alumni Committee on Institutional Security Policy (StalCommPol), which is unaffiliated with the University—has served as a controversial watchdog group of the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) since its founding in October...
...INDICATORS Reading The Fine Print Japan 's competition watchdog raided Microsoft's Tokyo offices on suspicion that it set unfair conditions when granting software licenses to Japanese computer makers. Microsoft denied the charge, but deleted the provision from future contracts...
Should pharmaceutical companies be allowed to overcharge Americans for drugs developed with taxpayer dollars? That’s the question recently put to the Bush Administration by Essential Medicines, a Washington watchdog organization...
...among others, keeps prices down by exploiting workers in Third World countries. Like other multinational groups that came under fire in the '90s, the company in 1997 instituted a code of conduct, which all suppliers must sign, and maintains inspectors in countries where its products are made. Still, watchdog groups continue to cite problems, including excessive overtime and lax health-and-safety regulations. Says Carl-Henric Enhorning, director of H&M investor relations: "We believe the best way to have a positive impact in developing markets is to be there and to be buying so that they have money...
...could join Human Rights Watch in calling for an independent inquiry into the Miami events. Kennedy School of Government academics could do a comparative study of the Cancun and Miami models of policing protests. Most importantly, now that Harvard has formally contracted with the Worker Rights Consortium, an independent watchdog over its licensing practices, faculty and students can identify and reform the flagrant sweatshop abuses that abound in “free trade zones” that will be expanded by the Free Trade Zone of the Americas proposed in Miami...