Word: watchdogging
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...Defense Fund plays a necessary watchdog function in the Square," says Charles M. Sullivan, executive director of the Cambridge Historical Commission and a 32-year resident of the city. "It's an area where the stakes are highest and the controversy's the sharpest. And the Defense Fund has been correspondingly vigorous...
...party newsletter, a job that earned him the mock degree of "doctor of mimeography." He earned his true credentials, however, in Moscow, where he studied Marxist-Leninist thought in 1926. Then it was back to a strife-torn China to propagate the faith. Deng's first assignment, as ideological watchdog to a Soviet-supported warlord, fell through when his patron defected to the Nationalists. Deng's next mission was even less promising: the young communist was ordered to the backcountry of Guangxi province in the far south, where he was to organize ragtag rebels to seize huge cities. Deng went...
...catch is right there on the information label: "Olestra may cause abdominal cramping and loose stools." Both Frito-Lay and P&G claim their test marketing hasn't turned up any unforeseen health problems. Nevertheless, the Center for Science in the Public Interest, the watchdog organization that warned Americans against the fat content of movie popcorn, is lobbying the FDA to rescind its approval of olestra, claiming that the additive is not as harmless as claimed...
...concentrate. This was a bold, some said outrageous, move; the difference between fresh and concentrated orange juice is not life-threatening, so why the strong-arm tactics? But everyone involved in the manufacture of the annual $1 trillion worth of products subject to FDA approval got the message: the watchdog had new teeth...
...proposal raised hackles among safety advocates and their traditional foes, the Big Three automakers in Detroit. "It's bad public policy," says Joan Claybrook, who led the NHTSA in the Carter Administration and now runs the watchdog group Public Citizen. "For the government to tell people it is O.K. to disconnect their air bags is a terrible idea that sends the wrong signal." Claybrook blames Washington and the car manufacturers for failing to instruct the public in basic matters such as never allowing small children to ride in front seats and wearing seat belts to make the air bags most...