Word: watchdogging
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...have been the buyer of valuable timberland for Georgia-Pacific Corp., a Prudential borrower and the biggest U.S. plywood producer, in a complex deal that could save him as much as $400,000 in income taxes. At week's end, the New Jersey Banking and Insurance Department, watchdog of the Pru's home state, was looking into the transaction to see if there had been any violations...
...more than the Post or the Chronicle, the Press fills the role of municipal watchdog-with a tendency to yip at everything from murder to pay raises for Houston city councilmen. Alarmed at Houston's high murder rate, the Press labeled the city "Murdertown, U.S.A.," campaigned so relentlessly for tighter gun registration laws that it drew scathing mail from nearly every quail-hunting and skeet-shooting type in Texas. Last January, impatient with the slow-moving police investigation into the slaying of Houston Housewife Wilma Selby, the Press rapped the police in an editorial and posted a reward...
Stockholder Sol Dann, a Detroit lawyer and self-appointed watchdog for Chrysler's stockholders who has long been publicly charging "corruption" against Chrysler brass, announced that he would file suit on behalf of the stockholders against Chrysler's management to see if any more cash might be recovered...
...Near Von Ormy, Texas, Bobby Yow reported to police that burglars had robbed his house of objects worth $150, plus an additional item of undetermined value: his watchdog...
...Obvious. In the slow, careful phrases of Chairman George H. Mahon, a tough-minded Texan who has tackled his job as a Defense Department watchdog with fierce integrity, the report spelled the real meaning of the deterrent. The mixed force, said Mahon & Co., not only makes it tough for an enemy to choose targets for attack, it forces him to maintain a defense against a number of different weapons systems. "This mixed-force capability is being planned or provided through the employment of the large ICBM installations hardened against nuclear attack, the smaller mobile Minuteman ICBM, the elusive Polaris fleet...