Word: watchdogging
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...congressional staff member to use the ties of government service to provide a lucrative, comfortable afterlife "happens all the time,'' Shuster correctly notes. But theirs is a coziness that is drawing new scrutiny in these increasingly self-conscious times in Washington. The watchdog group Common Cause plans this week to ask the House ethics committee to look into the relationship between the chairman and his former aide, who continues to serve as his top political adviser. What got people talking was a story that appeared earlier this month in the twice-a-week Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call. Just after...
Without law and order, says Theodore Beaubrun Jr., leader of the voodoo rock band Boukman Eksperyans, "everyone makes their own justice." Mobs play judge and jury, hacking people to death for crimes real or imagined. The omnipresent "popular organizations," self-proclaimed local leaders who act as watchdog, pressure group and enforcer of political correctness, command the masses and own the real power. "The popular organizations control this city," says Jean Robert Lalannes, a Cap Haitien radio-station director threatened with death after he criticized Aristide. "The vacuum of state authority is complete...
...included V chips in new sets. The chip can automatically block out movies that the German film-industry board has deemed unacceptable for young audiences. The chip also filters out all TV shows--including soft-core porn--that individual stations decide are potentially inappropriate. The FSF, a TV industry watchdog group, frequently guides networks in scheduling. In December 1994 it convinced the RTL network to run the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers on a weekly rather than daily basis, following public outcries that the show preached combativeness...
Greenspan, however, has motives beyond his own job security for at least partly accommodating White House wishes. The Fed chairman would badly tarnish his reputation as a prudent monetary watchdog if he allowed a recession to develop by keeping interest rates too high for too long. And he can now claim victory in the fight against inflation that he had long rated more important than promoting economic growth. Last year was the fourth in a row in which consumer prices rose by less than 3%, a period of stability unmatched in three decades...
...lobbying hard for bills proposed by Republican Representative Cass Ballenger of North Carolina and New Hampshire Republican Senator Judd Gregg that would curb OSHA's power to issue citations and fines for infractions of hundreds of rules and regulations. The sweeping change would transform the agency from a watchdog on safety matters to a toothless "adviser" to industry. Ballenger's measure has picked up 155 co-sponsors and, with some tinkering, could pass the House this spring. As it happens, Ballenger got $10,000 from UPS for his 1994 election race. Gregg, who contends that "OSHA has developed a well...