Word: overseen
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...advisors, like some political observers, see the Tavares case as similar to the 1988 Willie Horton incident, which famously hurt former Masachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis in his run for the presidency. Horton, in prison for life for murder, had been granted a weekend furlough under a Massachusetts program overseen by Dukakis and used the time to flee to Maryland, where he robbed and raped a woman...
...latest, and perhaps the most egregious, IG abuse to come to light has been at the State Department, where IG Howard Krongard is alleged to have repeatedly thwarted investigations into contracting fraud in the $3.6 billion spending that State has overseen in Iraq and Afghanistan, including the new U.S. embassy, which is racked with problems. In the process, according to seven former and current staffers, he is alleged to have censored politically embarrassing reporting, which many argue has helped obscure the corrosive effect of widespread corruption in Iraq. "One consistent element in these allegations is that you believe your foremost...
...former Defense Department IG from 1995 to 1999, suggested that the NSA's domestic wiretapping scandal might have been avoided if there had been greater oversight by the DOD IG. "A program as controversial as this one has turned out to be, in my view, certainly should have been overseen by the independent statutory [DOD] IG," she said...
...exactly what the data shows. It's true that controlling for socioeconomic status (SES) eliminates most of the public-school/private-school differences in achievement-test scores in math, reading, science and history. But even after you control for SES, Catholic schools run by holy orders (not those overseen by the local bishop) turned out to perform better than other schools studied. True, as the study says, there are only a small number of religious-order schools. But the data suggests that the type of school a kid attends does affect how well he will do - and that we could learn...
...reaching higher to bring their customers all things unattainable, Hall points to the one commodity everyone finds out of reach. "Time," says Hall, who in the '80s built out of nearly nothing what became the store's thriving leisure department. To that end, she has overseen a technology overhaul that will provide sales associates with daily alerts about the lives of their customers, whose numbers rank in archived thousands. Anniversary coming up? The associate knows to call the husband and what gifts to suggest for his wife. Thanks to this kind of signature service, Neiman's associates become, to many...