Word: overseen
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...believes is al-Qaeda's top operative in Iraq. If the memo is what Washington says it is, and if its author is not exaggerating, then al-Qaeda has played a greater role in the insurgency in Iraq than anyone has appreciated. The letter's author claims to have overseen 25 suicide attacks against various targets in Iraq, which would constitute almost all such assaults since the U.S. rolled into Iraq...
After Harvard and Charlesview come to an agreement, any plan to move the building will face a challenging approval process, overseen by the mayor, the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA) and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), which finances low-income tenants through the government’s “Section 8” housing subsidies...
According to a university spokesperson, Penn is not disclosing any specifics about the search, which is overseen by a non-binding “Consultative Committee” comprised of students, faculty and trustees of the university, in conjunction with the independent executive placement firm Isaacson Miller Associates...
While charging fees to foreign students is understandable—the revenue will help to maintain SEVIS, as the law providing for the database outlined—$100 is unnecessarily high. The U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, which had overseen SEVIS, was folded into the DHS in March, but seven months earlier, in August 2002, they had hired KPMG Consulting to determine a practical per-international-student fee to maintain the database. The firm found that the fee could safely fall well below the original Congressional ceiling of $95 and that only $54 per student was needed to cover...
...could someday help Chinese missiles penetrate America's planned missile-defense system. Indeed, the Pentagon warned in a report to Congress in July that "China's manned space efforts almost certainly will contribute to improved military space systems in the 2010-2020 time frame." China's space program is overseen by the 2nd Artillery Corps of the People's Liberation Army, the unit that also controls the country's nuclear arsenal...