Word: oversaw
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...hallway, clad head-to-toe in denim, with his long mane of hair trailing behind, accompanied by the scent of bountifully applied cologne. (At the judges' discretion, none of the defendants in any of the trials have been incarcerated.) He ducked into the trial of General Adam Damiri, who oversaw the military command for East Timor in 1999 and is the highest ranking military official on trial. When Damiri's session ended, Guterres hurried to greet the general with a handshake and a hug, and the two men walked out together, smiling?and confident in the belief that their version...
...Governor had promised four years ago to fix the state's child-welfare mess. But even though Bush oversaw a 27% increase in child-protection funding, 60 children who had previous contact with the state's child-welfare system died of abuse or neglect in 1999 and 2000, and as many as 1,000 were unaccounted for. Bush's Democratic challenger, former U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno, who is lagging in the polls, was quick to use the tragedy against Bush. The murder, she says, "certainly indicates that Rilya Wilson's case was not an isolated incident. There is simply...
...bosses with "being so gender blind that they had more confidence in my abilities than I did." She believes women "are more comfortable working in teams, and that is an advantage in such a complex business" as aviation. She helped United make the transition to an employee-owned corporation, oversaw its successful international expansion and coordinated the Washington angle of the bold yet ultimately unsuccessful merger attempt with US Airways...
Sometimes it's the small things that Andy Schneider finds the most rewarding. Acting as both a mother of four and Alaska Airlines' vice president in charge of operations at 49 U.S and foreign airports, she oversaw construction of a larger, fully staffed room at the airline's hub in Seattle-Tacoma, Wash., in which unaccompanied minors can safely wait for their connecting flight. Schneider also helped improve the process for tracking kids on connecting flights and got TVs and vcrs for the waiting rooms. "Those rooms are improvements that matter not just to our customers," she says...
...Keelboat Lewis designed the craft and oversaw its often delayed construction in Pittsburgh. This largest craft of the expedition never made it past what is now North Dakota. In spring of 1805, it returned to St. Louis, carrying men, specimens and reports...