Word: oversaw
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...have been the all-American orbiter Challenger, but for the first time ever, Houston had help. As NASA engineers took care of the nuts and bolts of the flight from Texas, a team of 160 flight specialists in the sleepy town of Oberpfaffenhofen, 15 miles southwest of Munich, oversaw the German D-1 Spacelab, stuffed into Challenger's cargo bay and carrying an elaborate array of 76 scientific experiments. Said a proud Hubertus Wanke, head of mission operations at Oberpfaffenhofen: "It's all similar to Houston, but in upper Bavaria...
Gates—who moved from Duke to Harvard in 1991—oversaw the department as it grew to become a leader in the field of African American studies. He has also presided over the more recent high-profile departures of several tenured professors to other universities amidst conflicts with University President Lawrence H. Summers...
Gates later oversaw the expansion of his department to include African studies...
Eric W. Hutchins, chairman of the Rowe Parcel Committee in Rockport, oversaw the management of a small field of eight acres the town bought for watershed purposes and as an open space for recreation. Hutchins said he noticed during the winter of 2003 that the manure pile kept on the field was being gradually depleted and is now nearly gone...
During his time at NBC, Carswell oversaw the budgets of numerous popular television shows, including “Cheers,” “The Cosby Show,” and “Seinfeld...