Word: oversaw
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...During his four years as dean of FAS, William C. Kirby oversaw measures intended to improve tenure prospects for junior faculty and mitigate the complicated, detailed, and immensely time-consuming series of hurdles involved in the tenure process. In February 2005 Kirby announced that Harvard would begin to advertise assistant professorships as tenure-track...
...expects China's beef industry to be transformed overnight. Others have tried Western production methods and failed. Steffen Schindler, a German butcher who runs two Beijing restaurants and a small meat plant, oversaw the first feedlot and slaughterhouse to sell hamburger meat to McDonald's in China. That joint venture went under after a local company set up a competing operation nearby. But as China keeps growing, Schindler thinks it's inevitable that the mom-and-pop industry will coalesce into large operations. "You cannot meet the demand if you're doing it the old-fashioned way," Schindler says...
...Bush pushed through that mammoth farm bill that put subsidies back in that were taken out under Newt Gingrich. He oversaw huge increases to federal education. And that's before you even get to his new entitlement, the Medicare Prescription Drug Program, which could add as much as $11.2 trillion in unfunded liabilities to Medicare," Tanner said. "He's been fairly liberal when it came to domestic spending...
...Seinfeld "because he's a perfectionist, and it's probably the only form of moviemaking where you can actually get near perfection." Seinfeld disagrees, describing himself as "obsessive, yes; perfectionist, no." For more than three years during production, Seinfeld continued his stand-up gigs on weekends and also oversaw everything from Bee Movie's casting to the most minute hand movements of the animated characters. (He began flying out to the DreamWorks studio so often, in fact, that he eventually rented a house in Bel Air, Calif.) During the final stages of production in August, Seinfeld is listening...
...cause among lawmakers today than during the years of Ronald Reagan's comparatively modest defense-spending boom. "Almost every program the U.S. military is now buying takes longer to develop, costs more than predicted and usually doesn't meet the original specifications and requirements," says Gordon Adams, who oversaw military spending for the Office of Management and Budget during Bill Clinton's Administration...