Word: watchdogging
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...contest for the Spiro Agnew Memorial Ethnic Slur Award, which last year went to Earl Butz, is already under way. A strong early bid has been made by Federal Trade Commissioner Paul Rand Dixon, who called Consumer Watchdog Ralph Nader a "son of a bitch" and a "dirty Arab" in a Jan. 17 speech before the Grocery Manufacturers of America. Nader's offense was charging that the commission coddled industry at the expense of the public. Dixon's semiapologetic remarks to a reporter did not help matters much. Conceding that his slur on Nader, who is of Lebanese...
...stuffed into a white envelope, that the Park regime slipped to Americans it hoped to influence. He recruited attractive Korean women, sometimes with the threat of deportation if they did not cooperate, to trap Representatives and Senators by sleeping with them. He also acted as his government's watchdog over more public South Korean lobbyists...
...consistently than the Federal Power Commission. One oil executive calls the agency "hidebound and bureaucratic"; another terms it "a miserable failure." Consumer advocates are just as vehement. "The FPC acts as judge and jury," says one. Congress is the most critical of all. Just before the November elections, the watchdog House Oversight Subcommittee accused the FPC of everything from "preconceived ideological" commitments to "a conscious disregard of its statutory duties." It bluntly concluded that the FPC is "the worst" of all the regulatory agencies...
...timing of the report's release by the congressional watchdog agency seemed intended to help Carter, but he ducked the issue-probably wisely, because the rescue mission was highly popular. He faulted Ford only for not releasing all the information that he had about the incident immediately after the ship and crew were rescued. Said Carter: "The President has an obligation to tell the American people the truth and not wait 18 months later for the report to be issued." Actually, there was little in the report that had not already been disclosed by the Administration...
...Since it was created in 1970, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been busily trying to protect everyone's health-except, apparently, that of its own employees. The oversight is documented in a draft report prepared by another federal watchdog agency, the General Accounting Office, after visits by inspectors to eleven of EPA's 60 laboratories. The report says that more than half the 1,329 scientists, technicians and other employees in these labs had been exposed to toxic and other hazardous substances without the safeguard of satisfactory health-monitoring services, which are required by law. One example...