Minders are watchdogs in coats and ties whose presence is a condition for an interview.
Then, in December, Consumer Reports, one of the most trusted consumer watchdogs in America, weighed in with its own findings.
£2m: Becks' annual income from Pepsi ads - criticised by industry watchdogs in March: 'We're struggling with an obesity crisis.
The dangerous ones are not those that are false; watchdogs in the news media are quick to debunk them.
And Google's size has begun to attract the attention of anti-trust watchdogs in areas such as digital book scanning, where it has ambitious plans.
In an attempt to pacify the competition watchdogs in its pursuit of SFR, Bouygues agreed to sell its network and some frequencies to Free.
To placate competition watchdogs in the 15 countries where both are big operators in particular France, America and Canada the combined firm plans to sell assets to competitors.
EVEN as big investment banks recoil from slavering watchdogs in America, they are getting much kinder treatment perhaps too kind from financial regulators in Basel and Brussels.
That case, which led to 10 firms paying $1.4 billion to the S.E.C. and other watchdogs in 2003, might have some resonance with the current one.
The supply chain is coming under greater scrutiny from regulators who wield powers that are the envy of watchdogs in other industries.
The former cabinet minister will be questioned under caution about more than £100,000 in gifts reported late to watchdogs, in apparent breach of election law.
