Word: watchdogs
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...PRESS, however, is a neutral unit. Remaining as well informed as it can be, the press functions as a sort of watchdog, putting in perspective the actions of the country at large. The country at large is then well trained in understanding what is hype and what isn't. We filter the information we receive and then turn to the analysis we want to choose. We are free to subscribe to the New Republic or the New Statesman, depending upon our opinion...
That deadlock has been developing almost since the beginning of the Reagan Administration. The Civil Rights Commission, established in 1957, has no enforcement powers; its members and staff can only investigate racial and sex discrimination renewal and assess the progress of federal efforts to end it. But even that watchdog role has had enough bite to nettle Reagan: for the past two years, the commission has issued a series of reports assailing his Administration for allegedly failing to enforce antibias laws vigorously. The castigation continued even after Reagan dismissed the chairman and vice chairman in November 1981 and won Senate...
...Jackie Cerone, 69, the underboss. The main Kansas City defendants are Carl DeLuna, 56, the underboss there, and Carl Civella, 73, whose late brother Nick had headed the city's Mafia operations. In Las Vegas, Defendant Tony Spilotro, 45, is described by investigators as a hitman and watchdog for the Chicago crime group...
...makes UNESCO a little less anxious to take a confrontational tone." Still, Gerard believes that the agency has not sufficiently recognized the value of unregulated coverage: the U.S. will propose next month that UNESCO agree that a free press stimulates economic growth and that the press is the best "watchdog" of itself...
...years behind its development timetable while its price rose sharply. The task force report says the system has not worked, will not work, and should never have been expected to work. Dated June 1983 but circulated last week by the Project on Military Procurement, a nonprofit defense sector watchdog, the report analyzes the computer system that was supposed to seek out the infrared "signatures" of enemy targets. In fact, the computer would have run up, in the report's words, "a monumental false alarm rate," and might be fooled by even the most primitive measures, like camouflaging tanks with...