Word: watchdogs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Horner's successor must be a watchdog on the administration and must take a more active role in the University by addressing women's concerns, such as date rape, sexual harrassment and eating problems. The next president must also act to solve academic problems encountered by female undergraduates, who have been alienated by some classroom situations and concentrations. Radcliffe has ensured a place for the women's agenda on campus; it should not allow that agenda to be lost in Harvard's bureaucracy or isolated in Radcliffe Yard...
Apparently shaken by the growing attention to the safety experts' report, NASA called a press conference last week at which George Rodney, the agency's top safety official, said he had thoroughly reorganized safety and quality- control operations. This included a 30% increase in personnel assigned to these watchdog duties. A tough former test pilot and Martin Marietta official, Rodney declared that anyone with a safety complaint could now readily get the attention of key project managers...
...biggest egos of all belonged to Orson Welles, who was always seeking perfection, or better. When the 60-day shooting schedule of Welles' The Lady from Shanghai ran to 90 days, the studio sent a watchdog, Jack Fier, to speed him up. Welles erected a sign that read THE ONLY THING WE HAVE TO FIER IS FIER ITSELF. Not to be outdone, Fier put up his own placard: ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELLES...
...area, however, is toy-inspired shows, which are criticized by children's TV activists as little more than program-length commercials. "Where is it written that Mattel should control the decision making in programming for children's TV?" says Peggy Charren, president of Action for Children's Television, the watchdog group based in Cambridge, Mass. "People who want to produce children's programs with something to say instead of something to sell are zapped out of the system...
...special three-person task force announced on Oct. 22 by President Reagan and headed by New York City Investment Banker Nicholas Brady. Its mandate: to study the market procedures that led to the crash and recommend ways to prevent a recurrence. Two other probes were started by the watchdog Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to study the extravagant volatility of stock and futures markets during the crash. Other studies of market behavior were being sponsored by the New York Stock Exchange and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Meanwhile, the House and Senate banking committees...