Word: watchdogging
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...watchdog organizations like the National Black United Front contend, Black men have often been killed by police while reaching into their pockets for identification, or, in one case, a Bible. Arrest situations are tense affairs: officers have accidentally shot each other in moments of confusion. But incidents like the Melvin killing will only repeat themselves if, as Sliwa hopes, we all get into the habit of automatically labelling "them" as "punks...
...increasingly-publicized wastefulness of the military industry. Corporations that make missiles, planes, submarines and other weapons have historically used tax dollars to finance budget-busing cost overruns and outright fraus. More important, they have been allowed to do so by the Justice Department, which in theory acts as a watchdog over defense contracts...
...Francis, the loser's campaign manager, "was this revolt based on unemployment, Social Security and fear." Joblessness is at a high 8.3% in Texas. White also exploited popular antipathy toward Texas power companies, suggesting that as Governor he would make the state's utility regulatory agency "a watchdog, not a lapdog." Said Don Ring, Clements' media consultant: "Texas politics snapped back to party lines just like a rubber band around a batch of Social Security checks...
...Shcharansky saga began in 1974 when--a day after his wedding--his wife Avital was expelled from the country, while his application to emigrate was denied. Two years later, Shcharansky joined the underground Helsinki Watchdog Committee, which attempted to monitor Soviet violations of the Helsinki Final Act, a human rights charter signed a year earlier by 35 countries, including the U.S.S.R. If honored, that country would have permitted Shcharansky, along with other citizens with family in other countries to emigrate...
They also make nuclear weapons--or parts of nuclear weapons--and that pisses off some people around campus. Backbone or not, these stocks, like other kinds of Harvard investments before them, have aroused some degree of controversy in recent months. And in fact, the Corporation's watchdog on moral and social issues involved with the stock portfolio, the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR), will be holding an unusual open meeting next week on this very subject...