Word: oversight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...investigations resulted in guidelines for covert activities, the establishment of Congressional oversight of the CIA and Congressional access to secret information...
...complained, "The administration of the college is insensitive to and not knowledgeable about education concerns and (the faculty's) proper and necessary role in the governance of the college." In lay language: McLaughlin had given his orders and done his works without first conferring with the faculty, a serious oversight at an intimate, old-line school like Dartmouth with a deep tradition of collegiality. Said Biology Professor Melvin Spiegel: "He responds as chairman of the board, not as president and leader of this institution." As one Cornell professor describes the administrators, "They're used to running that place like...
...more than 20 years, the Teamsters have cashed in every chip. On Jan. 29 the fund received a final $37.25 million loan repayment on Las Vegas' Aladdin Hotel. "We are now certifiably out of casino investments," said Central States Executive Director George W. Lehr. Placed under tight federal oversight in 1982, the fund now invests through the firm of Morgan Stanley Group Inc., which has redirected assets mostly into stocks and bonds. Last year its portfolio climbed in value from $5.2 billion to $6.4 billion--a smart showing even by the bullish Wall Street standards...
Professor Bok's influence seems to have waned, but Richard Nixon's seemed to have waxed. Former Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky says in connection with the finding that he did not pass on his knowledge of Safran's CIA funding (was that the result of oversight of was it policy?) that "it was an administrative error." Mortal sin and venial sin were good enough for St. Augustine but not for Dean Rosovsky, who has come up with a third theological category: administrative sin. What is the penance reuired for absolution? Or may it be obtained by presidential pardon...
...MacFarlan] said it was totally an administrative oversight," Wagner said of the choice to hold the meeting during vacation...