Word: oversaw
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...vice president, Reynolds was particularly influential in construction affairs. Over the course of his 14 years at Harvard, he oversaw such projects as the Yenching Library, the University Health Services building, New Quincy House and the Leverett Towers...
...three members of this year's commission, which oversaw the recent popular elections of next year's council president and vice president, all resigned within the last week...
...also finds himself having to explain some gaps between words and deeds. An outsider campaigning against waste, fraud and abuse, Forbes was very forgiving of profligacy during his only government tour, when he served as the unpaid chairman of the Board for International Broadcasting, an independent government agency that oversaw the operations of Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty from 1985 to '93. Far from downsizing in his tiny corner of the government, his agency's budget doubled during his tenure. Government audits considered it "improper" that under Forbes' leadership, Eugene Pell, the president of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, spent...
Forbes also became a noisy promoter of building a $300 million radio transmitter in Israel's Negev Desert. Warren Rudman, a budget hawk and former chairman of the Senate appropriations subcommittee that oversaw Forbes' agency (and a Dole supporter), praises Forbes as "full of energy," but adds that "the Negev project was just a total failure, because Democrats and Republicans alike could see that there was no need for it. But Forbes just had no hesitancy in asking for huge amounts of money it would have cost. It was fairly typical behavior for a Washington insider fighting for his project...
DIED. GERRY MULLIGAN, 69, the premier baritone saxophonist and a leading composer-arranger of the past four decades; of complications from a knee infection; in Darien, Connecticut. Though he oversaw the birth of "cool" jazz with Miles Davis in 1947, Mulligan defied classification, playing and writing with a distinctive pulse, wit and imagination. He conceived the "pianoless quartet," which paired his horn with Chet Baker's trumpet over bass and drums...