Word: oversight
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hope, and consequently no philosophy--only scum and a vision that simply is false. Like it or not, Chayevsky, people who come out good-on-balance do exist and can triumph, even in networks. This film overlooks the Murrows, the Schorrs, even the Gabe Pressmans--and this oversight makes Network unlifelike and superficial. That the world is full of sellouts, whores and pimps does not mean that everyone is a sellout, whore or pimp...
...responsible for its actions to a special Senate oversight committee, he added...
...oversight committee requirement does not represent a serious check on genetic research--the Med School committee will consist mainly of faculty members, whose colleagues are the ones conducting the research...
...Federal Power Commission. One oil executive calls the agency "hidebound and bureaucratic"; another terms it "a miserable failure." Consumer advocates are just as vehement. "The FPC acts as judge and jury," says one. Congress is the most critical of all. Just before the November elections, the watchdog House Oversight Subcommittee accused the FPC of everything from "preconceived ideological" commitments to "a conscious disregard of its statutory duties." It bluntly concluded that the FPC is "the worst" of all the regulatory agencies...
From his first day in office, Jimmy Carter wants to be an activist, innovative President in the boat-rocking mold of Franklin Roosevelt. The U.S., Carter says, is best served by "a strong, independent and aggressive President, working with a strong, independent Congress." It is no mere oversight that he uses "aggressive" only to describe the office he seeks. He regards Congress as "inherently incapable of leadership"-particularly the kind of forceful leadership that he plans...