Word: oversaw
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Macy's department-store maintenance engineer who has had his finger in more than one American intelligence pie. In 1983 Kattke helped Oliver North prepare the 1983 U.S. invasion of Grenada. He was also on hand in Haiti in 1986 when Baby Doc Duvalier was ousted. (Raymond Burghardt, who oversaw Latin American affairs for the National Security Council at the time, credits Kattke with "knowing that Baby Doc would be toppled before the U.S. embassy...
...lectures, sponsored by the Harvard University Council for Economic Affairs, are named after the physicist-turned-economist who oversaw the economic recovery in Taiwan...
While Clinton is a night owl, Gore goes to bed before Nightline and risesearly. Communications director Mark Gearan, who oversaw the vice- presidential selection process, said Gore's face went into free fall when Gearan told him that his meeting with then Governor Clinton about joining the ticket would begin at the Capital Hilton at 11:30 p.m., a good hour after Gore's bedtime. The Vice President says he has persuaded Clinton "to get more sleep...
...immediately. The mission focused narrowly on saving lives by moving food supplies past the guns of looters, instituting just enough law and order to get that done but leaving the longer-range jobs of pacification and nation building to the U.N. Says Robert Oakley, the U.S. special envoy who oversaw the political side of the operation: "I compare our mission to taking someone with hysterics and slapping him out of it. There will be violence in Somalia for a long time, but it will be low-level violence. The cycle ((of anarchy and starvation)) has been broken...
...done most cheaply in the U.S. GE quickly shifted its TV-assembly plant from Japan to Indiana, a move that put the division in the black within two years. "Ira's not some hyperintellectual consultant who throws an incomprehensible leather-bound report on your desk," says Richard Miller, who oversaw Magaziner's work at GE. "He goes straight for the nuts and bolts, and examines every assumption from the ground...