Word: oversaw
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dead, right wing and left. He had managed to anger both. Martin cared about the simple people; he would spend his weekends offering Mass and teaching first aid in the impoverished countryside. I found him a reliable source of information, especially because he oversaw the country's least biased public-opinion polls. A few years ago, a colleague asked Martin if there was any hope for El Salvador. "The only hope," he said, "is in the people who have been able to survive." Sadly, Martin...
Vacationing in the northern industrial city of Rostock last month, Egon Krenz decided to attend a soccer match. The outing may have been business as much as pleasure: as the Politburo member who handled youth affairs, Krenz also oversaw the country's sports programs. Soon after Krenz settled into his seat, an announcement blared over the public address system that the politician was in the stadium. Cheers and applause? Hardly. The fans booed lustily...
...decision to create the professorship in real estate development was made by McCue and President Derek C. Bok about seven years ago, and theGSD's Advisory Committee on Real EstateDevelopment oversaw the post's financing, McCuesaid...
...protesters charged that Major General Avram Mitzna, who oversaw military operations in the West Bank from May 1987 to June 1989, was responsible for several human rights abuses in the occupied territories...
BERLIN--Hard-line East German leader Ericn Honecker, who oversaw the building of the Berlin Wall, stepped down yesterday and was replaced by a younger Communist Party loyalist amid growing unrest and calls for democratic reform...