Word: watchdogging
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...neighborhood committees that exist almost everywhere in China -- watchdog groups that keep an eye on everyone and everything -- are unnecessary in Wu's village. In tone and in fact, he controls almost every aspect of village life -- and the villagers have prospered thanks to his wisdom. When income from the local ice-cream factory fell short of projections, Wu converted the plant to a successful cotton-fabric operation in six months. When this summer's drought threatened to devastate the village's wheat and vegetable crops, Wu proposed that water from the Yellow River -- unused previously because...
...fact the media, that watchdog of democracy, has been sniffing around the White House so often now that it already has uncovered several Bush Administration scandals that it is just waiting to unload on an unsuspecting public. For those of you who can't wait to hear it from Sam Donaldson and Diane Sawyer on the new "Primetime Live," here are some of the scandals that will allow President Bush to take his true place among the recent set of Republican chief executives...
...political gibes are drawing more than just laughs. In Washington the TV jokes are repeated in Capitol cloakrooms and quoted widely in the news media. The Center for Media and Public Affairs, a conservative watchdog group, tapes Carson, Leno and Letterman each night and catalogs their jokes by subject. During the Bush Administration's first 100 days, the most joked-about political figure was Tower (61 jokes), followed by President Bush (52) and Vice President Quayle...
...wake of all the criticism, Transportation Secretary Samuel Skinner sought last week to put the warnings in perspective. Said he: "The system is bulging at the seams, but it's still the safest in the world." Perhaps so, but its watchdog has been caught sleeping...
Last fall the tabloid specialist bought America's leading TV magazine. Now horoscopes and celebrity fluff are tarting up a longtime industry watchdog...