Word: oversaw
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...will to win broader understanding for his religion that the Mormon Church president agreed to speak to Mike Wallace in 1996. He told the tough 60 Minutes reporter, "We are not a weird people." After taking over in 1995, Hinckley traveled around the world, held telegenic celebratory events and oversaw a global expansion, during which believers outside the U.S. surpassed American Mormons for the first time, temples jumped from 49 to 120 worldwide and membership grew from 9 million to 13 million. Hinckley...
Among those that did caucus, fully half named the economy as their top concern. This abrupt change in the winds may well be good news for Clinton; her association with the days when her husband oversaw strong economic growth (and her husband was a heavy presence in Nevada), as well as her willingness to speak in more detailed policy terms than Obama, give her an advantage over her opponents among those concerned about the economy...
...trailblazing climatologist for starting the process. In 1959, Bolin told federal scientists that carbon dioxide in the atmosphere would rise 25% from 1850 to 2000. Thirty years later, as the first chairman of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change--which shared the 2007 Nobel with Gore--Bolin oversaw reports that led to such landmark agreements as the Kyoto Protocol, which called on industrialized nations to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions to 5% below 1990 levels...
...Gordon Adams, a veteran defense-budget expert who oversaw military spending from inside the Clinton White House, thinks Gates is overstating the case to put pressure on Congress. "Sad that the secretary seems to want to make civilians at the Defense Department pay the price for the Administration's political wrangle with the Congress on Iraq funding," he says. There are sufficient funding tricks that could be used to fund the entire military through March, he argues, rather than issuing warnings of impending layoffs that almost are certain never to happen. "The brinksmanship doesn't serve the nation well...
...Duch, a former mathematics teacher before joining the Khmer Rouge, oversaw S-21 prison with fastidious attention to detail. The prison's harrowing records survive: Mug shots of thousands of inmates, records of forced confessions elicited under torture, and post-execution photographs, which the ever-paranoid regime sometimes required as proof that its enemies, real and imagined, had been dispatched...