Word: oversaw
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...SILBER, president of Boston University (B.U.), is paying dearly for his iniquities. In the eight years he has served as B.U. president, Silber has alienated most of his constituency. He underpaid professors; he usurped the faculty powers of appointment, tenure, and dismissal; he disregarded student opinion entirely and oversaw the censorship of student publications. Students and faculty didn't like it, but until recently they accepted it. Then, this spring, they had enough--the faculty demanded substantial salary increases and more input into decision-making. When the administration balked, the faculty united with clerical workers and librarians to form...
...liberation of Paris in 1944 marked the freeing of talent and energy. Camus was awarded for wartime courage, oversaw the production of his flawed drama Caligula and began intensive work on The Plague, an allegory of moral infection and individual salvation. By the age of 35 he was a candidate for the Nobel; when he was 40 Camus found that his work, along with George Orwell's and Arthur Koestler's, was one of the rallying points for Europe's non-Communist left. His loathing for totalitarianism brought him into sharp conflict with Sartre, then in lockstep...
...practice of shovelling snow off the roof might have caused or aggravated the problem, August P. Sartucci, project supervisor in the planning office, which oversaw the construction of Canaday, said yesterday. "The roof cannot take too much of that banging," he added...
...then Defense Minister Schmidt as his state secretary, with a salary of 1 DM (54?) a year, and two years later followed Schmidt to the Department of Economics and Finance. Mommsen was appointed in 1973 chairman of the board of Krupp, West Germany's faltering industrial colossus, and oversaw its two most profitable postwar years before retiring...
...oversaw the Central American Defense Council actions involving the use of Guatemalan and Salvadoran troops in northern Nicaraguan cities...