Word: watchdogging
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...Lodz. At the convention, a total of seven liberals-including Zbigniew Herbert, Poland's leading lyric poet-were elected to the 24-man executive committee that had previously been composed entirely of conservatives. Jerzy Putrament, who for 20 years has been the party's politruk, or watchdog, within the union, was narrowly re-elected to the committee by a single vote-and only because some of his prominent opponents happened to be out of the hall at the time...
...Attorney General Ramsey Clark with a man like John Mitchell would work wonders. It did not; crime is still rising. While blacks have not been rioting, Nixon has done little to make them feel in the mainstream of the nation's life. Three times in the past year the watchdog U.S. Civil Rights Commission attacked his enforcement of civil rights legislation, once describing it as "less than adequate." Nixon repeatedly made plain his opposition to busing to achieve school integration, even as the courts often continued to encourage it. The President perhaps has a majority of Americans behind...
...subcommittee members ultimately went along with Rogers and cleared his bill, which increases the number of NCI research centers from eight to 23, speeds up the process of awarding study grants, and takes backers of the Administration's bill off the hook by creating a presidential watchdog commission to oversee an expanded NCI. Scheduled to reach the floor of the House later this month, the bill is expected to pass. Some tough House-Senate bargaining is likely to extend into the politicking of 1972. The chances are good that some form of the legislation will be enacted before...
...program without publicly eating his words and he took the chance posthaste. Meany warned, however, that the A.F.L.-C.I.O. will not consider member unions bound to forgo strikes or court challenges against Pay Board decisions. In addition, he announced that A.F.L.-C.I.O. unions around the country will set up "watchdog units" to constantly check on how much prices rise during Phase...
...status of women at Harvard and devising ways of increasing the number of women on the faculty. Its purpose shall be to create a climate in which prejudice against women, or apathy toward their presence and future at Harvard, will be hard to maintain; it shall serve as a "watchdog" to make sure that the uttering of pious generalities is not substituted for serious efforts to hire on the basis of excellence rather than...