Word: watchdogs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...panel urged creation of an independent watchdog agency with the power to impose civil fines of up to $5,000, or as much as three times the amount involved in a violation. Keeping city officials aboveboard will not be cheap. The additional personnel, office space for housing the mountain of new disclosure forms, matching public campaign funds and mandatory ethics training for every city department are expected to cost between $2 million and $4 million a year...
Asked whether he was prepared to lead the opposition, Gandhi said with a smile, "Absolutely. We will be a very good watchdog...
LIFE AFTER THE SPLIT. Jane Fonda's glamour was never enough to catapult Tom Hayden out of the California assembly. Now Hayden may run for the state's top eco-watchdog post, which he helped create. High-profile landfill work could be a prelude to a 1992 bid for Alan Cranston's Senate seat...
After years of activists' complaints about abuses in Soviet psychiatric facilities, 26 American psychiatrists, lawyers and interpreters last March toured such institutions in the U.S.S.R. and interviewed more than two dozen patients whose hospitalization had been questioned. The watchdog group concluded that while improvements had been made, disturbing evidence remained of unjustified confinements and fundamental shortcomings in psychiatric practice. Most troubling were the continued use of drugs that appeared to have more punitive than therapeutic value and the domination of the Soviet psychiatric establishment by some of the very officials who ruled it when abuse was rampant...
...neighborhood committees that exist almost everywhere in China -- watchdog groups that keep an eye on everyone and everything -- are unnecessary in Wu's village. In tone and in fact, he controls almost every aspect of village life -- and the villagers have prospered thanks to his wisdom. When income from the local ice-cream factory fell short of projections, Wu converted the plant to a successful cotton-fabric operation in six months. When this summer's drought threatened to devastate the village's wheat and vegetable crops, Wu proposed that water from the Yellow River -- unused previously because...