Word: oversaw
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MOSCOW, Russia: New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, meet your equal. Responding to a traffic altercation three weeks ago in which diplomats from Russia and Belarus claim to have been battered by New York police, powerful Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov recently oversaw a special operation, code-named "Foreigner," in which city traffic police zoomed in on foreign-owned cars, levying fines and confiscating license plates. Roughly 1,000 cars were stopped by city traffic cops, known by their Russian acronym GAI (gai-EE), during the two-day operation, which ended Thursday. Famed throughout Moscow for their ability to disperse fines...
...Chrysler's Prowler, the only American entry in the class--a convertible designed to hot-wire the Plymouth brand's low-watt image. Tom Gale, the Chrysler design chief who oversaw the $35,000 two-seater, says with a smile, "I remember when I was a kid thinking that convertibles were faster than other cars...
Becella comes to Harvard after serving for more than three years as registrar at the University of Arizona, where she oversaw the records of the school's 38,000 students...
...produced in extraordinary collaboration by two of our savviest political analysts, senior writer Richard Stengel and senior correspondent Eric Pooley. "With Rick and Eric, you know you're going to get the story behind the story," says senior editor Priscilla Painton, who along with assistant managing editor Steve Koepp oversaw our election-issue package. "Eric burrows into a story and doesn't come back until he has every detail. Rick never loses sight of the big picture...
DIED. RICHARD PORTER, 83, electrical engineer who helped lead America into space; on a train traveling from Washington to New York City. Porter oversaw the first U.S. satellite launch in 1958, a project that had its seeds in a perilous 1945 trip he made to Germany to recruit pioneering rocket scientists including Wernher von Braun...