Word: oversight
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...concomitant privileges of a personal fortune -- in terms of access to the state's vast resources, a position in the state hierarchy and the personal prerequisites that attend well-placed public officials. Those facts are certainly straight. To refer to those privileges as a "fortune" was a serious rhetorical oversight on my part. Yet to ignore the fact that Moses' activities did, nonetheless, benefit himself--in terms of power and privilege if not money--and to assume that the unique role Mr. Moses played in New York State politics cannot be "dragged in" as relevant to the current election...
Events in Cambridge and at Harvard in late 1976 and 1977 demonstrated all too clearly the folly of the scientists' oversight. Lear describes the controversy that pitted Harvard scientists and administrators against the Cambridge City Council as originating with Harvard's proposal for a new special containment laboratory which would conform to the new NIH guidelines -- the same lab scheduled to open here in a few days. At a hostile and emotional City Council meeting, the scientists confronted the Cambridge community. After the dust settled, the council imposed a three-month moratorium on all recombinant DNA research in Cambridge while...
...knows we don't want to cheat anyone. It's just an oversight," Heart said. She said she had not known about the overlapping infirmary fee before yesterday...
...appears that the other theaters have been operating midnight shows due to an oversight. That will be discussed when the Brattle Theatre gets its rehearing next week...
...whole episode of the misplaced documents might have been dismissed by the FBI'S critics as a regrettable oversight, but for the hostility that the bureau demonstrated toward King over the years. Thus filing away the reports was a mistake that the FBI could not afford to make...