Word: watchdogs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...watchdog watching carefully enough? That was just one of the questions on Wall Street last week as fresh controversy swirled around the Street's takeover titans -- and the agency that oversees them. Widening its probe of illegal insider trading, the Securities and Exchange Commission revealed unsettling new details of the Ivan Boesky case, while disputes flared over the use of so-called greenmail tactics in takeover battles...
...system of peer review of research articles and grant proposals roots out unconcious bias in scientific findings. But the recent case of research fraud involves something else: conscious bias. The system of self-regulation in the scientific community works well as a watchdog of the former, but simply was not made to deal with the latter...
More than two years after its creation, Cambridge's civilian police review board still is not functioning as the watchdog of this town's controversial police department, members of the City Council charged this week...
...Cambridge Civic Association (CCA), a civic watchdog group with four members on the City Council support rent control, has not endorsed the CTU and is not a member of the Coalition...
...which Reagan has gotten a lot of propaganda mileage--careful checking of sources, or holding off on the front-page headlines for stronger evidence is crucial to maintaining a credible press. As we all learned in high school, the press is supposed to be a "watchdog" of government, but it isn't if it wags its tail and licks Reagan's face every time he throws it a bone...