Word: oversight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Citing an inability to support a proposed $800 million tax package, the chair of the Massachusetts House Post Audit and Oversight Committee resigned yesterday morning...
...midst of an awakening," it declared. "A revolutionary people's movement has brought into motion a process of great change." Besides underlining its commitment to free elections, the committee promised separation of the Communist Party from the state, a "socialist planned economy oriented to market conditions," legislative oversight of internal security, and freedom of press and assembly...
...Colell contends that he does not need the committee to effect change, relying instead on "quiet diplomacy." Quiet diplomacy and friendly dealing are not the solution to the minority faculty problem, but the root cause. It is precisely because hiring in the past has been free from administrative oversight that the composition of Harvard's faculty is so skewed today...
...privatization plan is facing two lawsuits, one from a teachers union arguing that the plan does not allow for enough public oversight and thus violates the state constitution, and another from Hispanic parents charging that city officials did not give the community adequate opportunity to respond to the plan before formally adopting...
This small oversight is merely indicative of Mockler's, and Gillette's, real feelings about democracy and egalitarianism. When John W. Symons, Gillette's North Atlantic president, boasts "We have the potential of being the greatest male toiletry business in the world" it's hard not to laugh at the absurdity of his dreams of power...