Word: watchdogs
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...Center for Public Integrity, a Washington D.C.-based nonpartisan watchdog group, says that evidence points to Harvard as the likely buyer...
...tobacco-history video. Perhaps more egregiously, it granted rural Nash County $400,000 for water and sewer engineering to attract a tobacco-processing plant. "The money is going in a circle here," says Don Carrington, vice president of the John Locke Foundation, a state-government watchdog group...
...public health, assessment or collection of a tax, duty or levy, prevention - in an emergency - of death or injury, or any damage to a person's physical or mental health. "Throughout history, surveillance has always started in piecemeal ways," says Simon Davies, director of Privacy International, a London-based watchdog group. "But once privacy is taken away, it is never returned. It becomes part of the infrastructure of surveillance and control." Also worried is Marco Cappato, an Italian Member of the European Parliament. An original sponsor of the E.U.'s data-protection legislation, he turned against it, he said, when...
...controversy of Winokur’s affiliation with Enron sparked the interest of HarvardWatch, a recently resurrected watchdog group of students, faculty and alums focusing on University governance...
...fending off a rare revolt by shareholders who want a bigger dividend from the company's $1 billion cash reserve. Looking to boost investor confidence in the market, Chinese regulators have launched a campaign against embezzlement by listed companies. In Malaysia, private investors have established the Minority Shareholders Watchdog Group, and a similar body has been formed in Taiwan...