Word: watchdogging
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...Coast Guard, which has been the federal watchdog on the cleanup, has largely agreed with Exxon. The state says it will continue its own cleanup efforts and press for Exxon to return to the task. By spring, however, winter storms may have completed the job, according to experts...
...group of five, including three men. But such a precaution did not prevent them -- or thousands of city residents -- from being victimized. "Crime is tearing at the vitals of this city and has completely altered ordinary life," says Thomas Reppetto, president of the Citizens Crime Commission, a private watchdog group. "Worst of all, it is destroying the morale of our citizens...
Fearing that this appalling state of affairs can only get worse, the victims at last have begun to strike back. Often with the backing of ecological watchdog groups, grass-roots organizations are taking on the waste managers, using public relations and the law as their major weapons...
...Brodeur who first brought Slesin's work to widespread public attention. Much of the information in Brodeur's influential book Currents of Death was gleaned from the files of Microwave News. In a chapter titled "Watchdog" he describes Slesin's unrelenting coverage of the landmark studies linking low-level electromagnetic fields to the increased incidence of miscarriage, birth defects and various forms of cancer, especially brain tumors and leukemia. In the July 9 issue of the New Yorker, Brodeur returned to the subject with a detailed story about a cancer cluster in Guilford, Conn. Over a period of 20 years...
Poor Nintendo. The Japanese conglomerate may have enthralled youngsters with the world's most popular home-video games, but it gets no respect from adults. An antiviolence watchdog group has rated some 70% of the company's games "harmful for children." Physicians warn that too much rapid-fire button pushing can lead to hand strain, a condition dubbed Nintendinitis. And many parents, seeing their kids play Super Mario Bros. for hours on end, are asking what a nonstop diet of synthetic reality is doing to impressionable young minds...