Word: watchdogging
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...began intensive hearings aimed at revising drastically the way the regulatory agencies handle their work. Whatever the committee decides, its hearings are sure to add further to the argument over the federal agencies. The Senate is already considering creation of a permanent administrative body that would serve as a watchdog over the entire regulatory process. The Republican platform singles out "power-grabbing regulatory actions" as a campaign issue, and Lyndon Johnson has made it plain that he wants the agencies to concentrate on "more cooperation with, instead of more regulation of business...
...Tough Watchdog. The most influential, and consequently the most controversial, of Washington's alphabet soup of agencies are the Big Seven independents-the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Federal Power Commission (FPC), Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC), Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) and the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). In addition, the Food and Drug Administration must clear all prescription drugs and the Federal Aviation Agency, whose annual budget of $775 million is the largest of the agencies, sets safety standards and regulates the design and production of aircraft. The agencies spend about...
...develops, is a pooch who likes hooch and loves his mistress (Christine Kaufmann) with doglike devotion. Tony is a wolf who hopes to appropriate the mistress. In real life he did: he married Actress Kaufmann while this movie was being made. On screen he has trouble with the watchdog, who 1) spills soup on his lap, 2) contrives to drop a piano on his head, 3) slips him a knockout powder on his wedding night, and 4) fakes suicide to put him in the doghouse. In the end, of course, man beats dog, but only because the scriptwriter is biased...
...Watchdog. Though Conservative Karamanlis was the ablest Premier in recent Greek history, King Paul and Queen Frederika considered him highhanded (he thought the same of the Queen); they also opposed his ideas of reforming the constitution to give the Premier stronger executive powers. In June, when they rejected Karamanlis' advice to call off a scheduled state visit to Britain because of possible leftist demonstrations, he resigned and spent three months in a Swiss villa. Returning to run for reelection, he was narrowly defeated by wily, middle-of-the-road George Papandreou, 75. Karamanlis wanted to quit then...
Fellow Texan and onetime Accountant Walter W. Jenkins, 45, has been closer to Johnson longer than anyone else on his personal staff. Jenkins joined Johnson in 1939, only two years after he was elected to Congress, and quickly became his top administrative aide. He performed as political watchdog and personnel manager, answered Johnson's mail and mined assiduously for information to keep Johnson briefed. A Johnson friend remarked in the campaign days of 1960, "He is the one man who can hold L.B.J. together. The Senator talks with him an hour a day no matter where...