Word: watchdogging
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...starter, Nader's Washington-based Center for Study of Responsive Law issued the latest of its more than 20 books and reports to date: The Monopoly Makers, a scathing 345-page examination of the cozy relationships between federal regulatory agencies and the industries that they supposedly watchdog. By too willingly approving mergers, setting price floors that protect established companies and preventing new firms from entering fields such as the communications and transportation industries, the report charges, the regulators have assisted in the creation of monopolies that overcharge consumers and taxpayers by $16 billion to $24 billion a year...
Washington Democratic Senator Henry Jackson, who sits on the Armed Services Committee that has watchdog authority over the CIA, suggests that the committee should send Nixon a set of written "interrogatories." Says Jackson...
That ugly talk hardly squares either with Cook's own story that he insisted Vesco must be haled into court, or with Wall Streeters' impression of Cook as a bright, aggressive securities watchdog...
Sims, Jay and Edwin Williams, Capital reporter for the Greenville, Miss., Delta Democrat Times, supported the formation of a National Press Council to act as a watchdog for the news industry. Williams explained that the Council would near complaints of individuals against the national news media and would consider issues relating to the freedom of the press...
Though he chaired the most important wartime committee in Congress -the Truman committee acted as watchdog over defense-Harry tried to enlist in the Army. He went to see Army Chief of Staff George Marshall...