Word: oversaw
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...Washington in 1967 and worked as a part-time doorman on Capitol Hill. He rose through the ranks to chief page and in 1983 became sergeant-at-arms of the House of Representatives. In that capacity Russ helped command a force of 1,265 black- suited police officers and oversaw the security of the 435 members of the House...
...seminars in his Belmont home. From February 1987 to June 1990--a remarkably long tenure--he was the Head Tutor of the Government Department. In those three and a half years, the number of government concentrators increased 45 percent--the biggest boom the department has seen in decades. Peterson oversaw it all, and took an active role in restructuring the department...
...spent his weekends forging metal at his country home in New Jersey. Now he's likely to have even more time to perfect his craft. Last week the New York Stock Exchange suspended Joseph for two years for his allegedly lax stewardship of the bankrupt firm, where he oversaw junk-bond king Michael Milken. The Big Board's $ rebuke prohibits Joseph from acting as a manager or supervisor at its member firms and bars him from owning a controlling interest in those companies. The penalty won't force Joseph to earn his living by the forge. He'll be allowed...
...whittled down For the Record, the memoir of former White House chief of staff Donald Regan; last year he excerpted Reagan's autobiography. "Barry did such a masterly job on those that there was no question who should handle North's book," says executive editor Ronald Kriss, who oversaw this project, having cut down a number of works himself. Indeed, so apparent is Seaman's editing talent that in June he was made a senior editor, a much more logical event to have put on his agenda 20 years...
During Eduard Shevardnadze's tenure as Foreign Minister, Komplektov oversaw Latin American affairs. By design, he had little substantive power -- which was lucky for both superpowers since each knew that improving their relations generally required easing their rivalry in Central America...