Word: oversight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...This oversight is all the more inexcusable because the effects of nuclear weapons testing are still being felt by residents of Micronesia. Children carried to full term by Micronesians often go through life plagued with cancerous growths and serious thyroid problems. A common phenomenon on many of the islands is the birth of unhealthy children known as "jellyfish babies," which appear as blobs of flesh whose only indication of life is a spasmodic hopping motion that accompanies breathing...
...House, my association with President Nixon and the circumstances of his resignation. By innuendo and more direct means, it was suggested that I had unjustly escaped public humiliation and hanging as a Watergate criminal, and that my appointment to the Cabinet might provide a good opportunity to correct this oversight. For the press, there is no such thing as too many scoundrels. It knows that villains are interesting. I had been cast as lago. My wife and children were distressed. My friends were appalled. I was infuriated, and in an earlier day, when the reputations of public persons were still...
...disclosure statement, which was supposed to cover any large assets or indebtedness of anyone in his family. After the Post sought an explanation from him to include in its story revealing the loan, Meese hurriedly wrote a letter of apology to the Judiciary Committee saying, "I sincerely regret the oversight...
Trimming U.S. oversight...
...forbidding discrimination against women. Grove City denied it discriminated but refused to sign because it was determined on principle to shun Government red tape. Now, nearly $400,000 in college legal costs later, the high bench has ruled that the student grants do indeed constitute federal aid, triggering federal oversight. But the Justices also found that since Grove City's financial-aid program is the only part of the school affected by federal funds, it alone is subject to Government regulation. Writing for the majority, Justice Byron White found no evidence that Congress intended U.S. regulatory authority to "follow...