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...Rowe's words do not convince McMillan, a local resident watchdog of the University's development...
...American public was lucky to have an Inspector General like Schiavo, who knew her job and cared about what she was doing. The FAA should have a watchdog with teeth. JOAN HEDENKLINT Lidingo, Sweden...
...been eager to compile these data. But now some of the biggest consumers of health care--groups like the American Association of Retired Persons and General Motors--are pressuring managed-care companies to participate in independent outcome studies coordinated by the nonprofit Foundation for Accountability, in Portland, Oregon. Watchdog groups have encouraged the industry to adopt uniform standards for what a plan must disclose to consumers until those data are available. In December the American Association of Health Plans began instructing its members to provide, on request, clear information about...
...January when it added eight plants to its "watch list" of problem reactors, a move the industry protested as "political" and nuclear critics applauded. "Jackson is the toughest chairman we've seen," says Bill Magavern, director of the Critical Mass Energy Project at Ralph Nader's Public Citizen watchdog group. "But she's fighting mighty economic pressures...
Northeast eventually made the fuel-pool cooling-system changes Galatis demanded, but the NRC rejected his plea for it to suspend the company's license, insisting that "the relative safety significance" of the fuel-pool issue "is low," a conclusion disputed by a host of industry-watchdog engineers. The "pervasive noncompliance" that Galatis uncovered, the agency admitted, did pose a potential threat to public safety. The NRC informed Galatis in December that its long-term shutdown of Millstone "constitutes a partial grant of the petitioner's requests." The agency is delaying a decision on enforcement actions until the U.S. Attorney...