Word: oversaw
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Before the green rings of Starbucks lassoed streetcorners around the square, Josefina Yangues oversaw the convergence of coffee and conversation in the white-walled basement of her three-story house on Bow Street...
Under her watch, Harvard’s Freshman Seminar Program expanded significantly. “She’s responsible for the success of the Freshman Seminar Program, and really oversaw its expansion,” said Assistant Dean of the College and Secretary of the Administrative Board John T. O’Keefe...
...their differences, in the two years following the patriarch's death, there was no outward sign of disharmony between the brothers. Reliance aggressively branched out of its core industrial sectors into telecommunications, oil exploration and power generation. As co-managing directors at Reliance Industries, Anil handled finance while Mukesh oversaw strategic projects. The pair found a safe vent for sibling rivalry by creating distinct fiefdoms among Reliance's smaller subsidiaries. Under Mukesh, Reliance entered the highly competitive mobile-phone market and quickly garnered a subscriber base of more than 7 million, becoming the country's largest wireless carrier. Anil directed...
...being a Western agent. The son of teachers from the agricultural corner of northeastern Ukraine, Yushchenko spent the early part of his career as a rural accountant and state banking bureaucrat. But he came to prominence in 1993 as head of Ukraine's new Central Bank, where he oversaw the introduction of the national currency and was credited with steering the country through the turbulence of the 1998 Russian economic crash. Tapped by President Leonid Kuchma as Prime Minister a year later, Yushchenko alienated Ukraine's financial oligarchs and overshadowed his unpopular boss, who fired him in 2001. As head...
...defeatist, it must be said that for his as-yet-untitled album, due out in February 2005, Beck is going back not to any single previous sound but to all of them. Assisting him are John King and Mike Simpson, the production duo known as the Dust Brothers, who oversaw Odelay, Beck's 1996 masterpiece (as well as the Beastie Boys' masterpiece Paul's Boutique and Hanson's admittedly less masterly masterpiece MMMBop). "All producers have their own proclivities or different tastes," says Beck. "I've worked with certain people who hate rock music, so anything that's rockish...