Word: watchdogging
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...even the antiwar protesters sported American flag lapel pins next to their peace pins. Said Greg Wald, owner of the All Nations Flag Company in Kansas City: "The first week of the war was like Memorial Day and the Fourth of July combined. It hit like an earthquake." Consumer-watchdog groups, though, warned of con men already hatching heartless schemes. Swindlers in Hauppauge, N.Y., pretending to be cemetery employees, were urging veterans last week to buy graveyard plots before fresh war casualties filled up the best spots...
...despite the appearance of openness, the committee has kept an airtight lid on information about the status of the search, and the process has been sharply criticized by watchdog groups and some students...
...this war, the draft won't be militarily or politically feasible," says retired Rear Adm. Eugene J. Carroll, Jr., an analyst with the military watchdog group Center for Defense Information...
...months, has stirred fierce opposition. The American Public Health Association, civil liberties groups and unions representing medical workers contend that a policy change at this time is misguided and scientifically unjustified. "The CDC is not focusing on public health," declares Ruth Finkelstein of the AIDS Action Council, a watchdog group. "It is focusing on public relations. The issue is being framed as one in which doctors are being irresponsible. The fact is that the public health risk from infected medical professionals is infinitesimal...
There is no evidence, however, that Iraq has tried to convert the core into an explosive device. When Iraq purchased the uranium from France in 1975, Baghdad agreed to place it under the supervision of the International Atomic Energy Agency, a Vienna-based nonproliferation watchdog group. IAEA inspectors perform tests on Iraq's stash twice yearly. Last week the agency certified that the latest round, conducted from Nov. 19 to 22, showed "no change" in either the amount or the purity of the uranium...