Word: watchdogs
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...Milo meets a Watchdog job is to prevent people from time (Long ago, the general was: "if there's so much of it, be very valuable," and the thus fell into disrepute.), a Bee (b-e-e-), a Humbug whom loves, and a flock of who bring cliches to life. Juster real respect for the hackneyed he likes to dust it off and you of the time when it shone and really enriched...
...sudden searches and unreasonable arrests; he gets a lawyer and they have to stop. They also have to stop guarding the hero's house when the vil lain's lawyer threatens to tell the taxpayers how their money is being spent. Next day the hero's watchdog is poisoned. The chief of police advises him to hire a private detective: "It's a terrible thing to say, but there's nothing more we can do." While the detective tails the villain, the villain tails the hero and his family - and skillfully accelerates the terror...
...fondness for quoting the plays of Jean (The Madwoman of Chaillot) Giraudoux, Fouchet has a reputation for plain speaking and personal honesty. He escaped when France fell, served as a Free French paratrooper. He has been a dedicated Gaullist ever since, worked for Le Grand Charles as propagandist, diplomat, watchdog in the National Assembly, and for the past eight months as chairman of the Fouchet Committee on European unity while at the same time serving as Ambassador to Denmark. Fouchet managed to keep the respect of other diplomats from Common Market nations even while arguing De Gaulle's unpopular...
...very well be as "clean" as the committee says it is, but that, as yet, has hardly been proven. The watchdog committee to be appointed by the HCUA will be in a position to clear up the confusion of the HSA controversy. But to do so it must conduct an extensive investigation of HSA books and practices--and present an equally extensive report. The student body deserves a full accounting, and the HSA deserves a full and fair hearing...
White House Watchdog. Under the Kennedy plan, Congress would authorize the creation of a privately owned company-called the Communications Satellite Corp.-which would be financed through public sale of securities. Its activities would be overseen by a committee of Government watchdogs reporting directly to the President...