Word: overing
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For a bureaucrat who serves at the pleasure of a dozen bosses, Delors can be short-tempered and occasionally imperious. During one memorable speech last year, he accused a British representative on the 16-member European Commission of being "a lackey of the Labour Party" and referred indelicately to West...
When Delors arrived in Brussels, the Community had experienced more than a decade of drift, along with some unpleasant jolts brought on by two international oil crises. Even though the establishment of the Community in 1958 had resulted in the removal of some tariffs, Delors found that others still persisted...
A. So what? He called me, and I turned him over to the housing people. I didn't say, "James Watt, you've got it." No way.
A. I believe that the vast majority of HUD's employees served me well. But there were rotten apples in and out of the HUD barrel. During my administration there were over 2,300 convictions of persons and firms doing business with HUD.
Q. HUD Inspector General Paul Adams said he repeatedly warned top HUD officials, including you, that there was not proper control over money in HUD foreclosure sales. He also said that when he briefed you last year about his internal investigation of the mod-rehab program, you offered little encouragement...