Word: watchdogs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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NEWS ANALYSIS "This effectively usurps everything we do except the departmental audits. And even there, many academic departments are setting up autonomous undergraduate advisory committees that make our job as watchdog unnecessary. It's hard to see anything the HRPC's done in the past that will continue...
...outraged cries of "journalistic exhumation" and "cashing in on pornography." Lord Longford, former leader of the House of Lords, protested that "Jack Profumo has reclaimed his reputation so totally . . . it is quite revolting that some stale old stories are being published." Last week, as the clamor intensified, a government watchdog agency banned a television commercial promoting the series on grounds that the memoirs offended public feeling...
...houses be permitted to sell their own shares to the public? What kind of commission discounts should the stock exchanges give to the big institutional investors? The answers to these and other basic questions will depend largely on the views of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Washington's watchdog over Wall Street. The times would seem to call for a tough-minded decision maker as SEC chairman. In Hamer H. Budge, the SEC has instead a tranquil, kindly administrator who has a penchant for delay. In addition, Budge last week was accused of "gross, clear, conspicuous, transparent conflict...
...declared the National Citizens Com mittee for Broadcasting, a TV watchdog group, in a recent statement calling for the overhaul of commercial television-licensing procedures. Over the two decades since major television channels were first assigned by the Federal Govern ment, renewals of three-year broadcast licenses have been almost automatic...
...soft-spoken man offscreen, he manages to give himself bulk and ferocity as a man driven up the walls of el barrio by the conflict of pride and circumstance. As a comedian, he clambers over the film to reach the top rank of American performers. Barking like a watchdog to frighten off apartment thieves, or purifying English curses into harmless Spanish, Arkin transforms slapstick into exuberant social comment...