Word: oversaw
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...elected to a three-year term as a governor of the New York Stock Exchange in 1968 and helped develop a method of insuring customer accounts in the event of a firm's financial failure. As chairman of the exchange in 1971 and 1972, the Princeton-educated DeNunzio oversaw the paring of the board from 33 to 20 members and the creation of a salaried, full-time chairman. As head of the exchange's costs and revenue committee, he succeeded in bringing the commission rate structure into line with Wall Street's current capital needs...
...friends founded the American Appliance Co., now the mammoth Raytheon Co. On campus, he later developed the differential analyzer, an ancestor of the modern computer, then resigned as engineering dean in 1938 to head Washington, D.C.'s Carnegie Institution, a leading research organization. During the war Bush oversaw work on the atomic bomb, radar and other military devices as director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development. In 1955 the reedy Yankee resigned the Carnegie post, later became M.I.T.'s honorary chairman, and filled his days hatching inventions and writing about science and society...
...hostility against Richardson would not bring peace to Southeast Asia. It would not resurrect the bodies or homes destroyed by the devastation of the Cambodian countryside. It would not compensate for a moratorium in government support for the protection of civil rights of minority groups and women, which Richardson oversaw as secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. A hostile reception could only be a sign, but it could be an important sign nonetheless...
...land and water conservationist; in Berkeley, Calif. As a forestry professor in Nanking, China, in the 1920s, Lowdermilk concluded that the vast wastelands of northern China were a product of careless exploitation of agricultural resources. In a vigorous lifelong crusade to combat what he termed "man-induced erosion," Lowdermilk oversaw numerous U.S. conservation programs over the years and served as consultant to the governments of Mexico, Japan and Yugoslavia. His pet project was the early agricultural development of Israel, where his suggestion that water from the Jordan River be diverted to irrigate the desert was finally implemented...
...will be available. But these figures alone may be meaningless, since few students--men or women--participate in the competition for those prizes that require submitted work, as opposed to cumulative academic achievement. An official in the prize office said that most of the essay contests that her office oversaw this year drew under 10 competitors. The problem may be one of access for the whole community: A select few students compete for costly rewards. Or it may be benign: Few students--men or women--are interested in competing for essay prizes. Or it may pertain specifically to the status...