Word: oversight
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard's child day care center. They inspected the paint chips for lead poisoning, the closets for possible reconstruction, and informed her that her home might be converted to a day care center. She first thought their pronouncement was an unfounded rumor, until Harvard phoned to apologize for the oversight in the lack of notice, and verified the news...
...House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigation opened hearings last week into the safety of Firestone 500 radials, and may extend its probe to all U.S. steel-belted radials. The subcommittee reports 15 deaths since 1973 in which blowouts of such tires were the major cause or the chief contributing factor. It also cites 16 other crashes that resulted in 31 injuries, and hundreds of accidents involving property damage...
...congressional oversight. There are clear risks in the process of oversight. The first is that we will end up with intelligence by timidity-we won't take any risks because somebody might criticize us. The second is exposure. If you have too many people viewing a sensitive operation, it may become publicly known and cost somebody's life or abort the operation ... I'd like to see us notify fewer committees of Congress; now we technically report to eight of them...
...when the Soviets blockaded the city, and four years later became the first postwar Ambassador to Japan, helping negotiate an end to the Korean War. Although Murphy retired in 1959, he continued to advise Presidents, and in 1976 was named by Gerald Ford to head the Board of Intelligence Oversight, a monitor...
...nicotine." a freshman who wished not to be identified said yesterday. The American Cancer Society's failure to publicize the smoke-out on college campuses, may have lessened Harvard participation in the "Smoke-Out," Joseph Paiva, director of public education for the society, said yesterday. "It was a gross oversight on our part," he added...