Word: watchdogs
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...shares for short-term investors, while 53% favored B and C shares for clients with more than $25,000 to invest. Smythe calls this "very disturbing evidence" that brokers are either as fee-befuddled as their clients--or blatantly self-serving. I call it proof that the only investing watchdog you can rely on is yourself. Here's how to avoid a load of trouble...
...exhibit their dislike for the American and British presence, may prove that the troops have overstayed their welcome. It is one thing for a nation to show concern for the welfare of the world but quite another to interfere in another country's affairs. If Americans must play global watchdog, they might as well let the occupied nation do its own work. The images portrayed in your report were sad reminders of the mission that went bad in Mogadishu, Somalia, in 1993. Haven't Americans seen enough? How long will they allow their countrymen to suffer at the hands...
...cash virtually every day. Consider that there are 850,000 nonprofits, or 501(c)(3) organizations, across the country and that an estimated 40,000 new charities are formed each year, according to Bennett Weiner, chief operating officer of the BBB Wise Giving Alliance, an Arlington, Va., charity-watchdog group...
...observer of Texas politics e-mailed this description of him: "Thoughtful. Conspiratorial. Crusader. Half-whacked. Smart. Insightful. Wise. Nuts." Well, not nuts. But most of it has a kernel of truth. Earle's reputation as conspiratorial derives largely from the workings of his office's public-integrity unit, a watchdog office that prosecutes those (including elected officials) who commit crimes in the course of their dealings with the state. Earle's job, in other words, is to root out conspiracies...
...supposed to ensure fairness. Most prosecutors feel an intense obligation to let the system work as it's built; crusading just isn't part of the prosecutorial gene pool. But Earle believes that, as he puts it, "the system cannot be trusted to run itself." It needs a watchdog, a backup...