Word: watchdogging
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...constant watchdog of the Charles, and a central purpose is to increase public awareness that the river is dirty and it should be cleaned up," said Goodhue...
According to the BSA's philosophy, the way to reap positive results is to maintain a constant "watchdog" vigil, sustaining pressure on the administration...
...good name. "I do not see any wavering of public confidence as a result of (the Cathay scandal)," he said in an interview with TIME (see box). "Actually the government benefits by taking measures to overhaul the financial system." An investigative committee of the Control Yuan, the government's watchdog agency, ! assigned blame for the scandal last month to Finance Minister J.K. Loh, who resigned within hours, and to Hsu Li-teh, who quit as Economics Minister last March...
...with a caveat: the funds would be released only if Weinberger certified that the gun "meets or exceeds the performance specifications of its contract." The tests were monitored by the Pentagon's new Operational Test and Evaluation Office, mandated by Congress in 1983 to serve as an independent watchdog. The results were abysmal. Said OT&E Director Jack Krings last week: "As tested, the Sergeant York was not operationally effective in adequately protecting friendly forces during simulated combat...
Makarov was a surly, pompous, sarcastic contrast to Gromyko's cool but generally courteous personality. Gromyko kept him as the perfect watchdog. He scared off intruders. He sheltered his master from unnecessary contacts with lesser humans. Gromyko is an efficient machine, constructed to perform and to endure, and almost completely devoid of human warmth. He can joke and he can rage, but underlying any such expression is a cold discipline that makes him formidable as a superior or as an adversary...