Word: oversight
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...take meets in a nonaccessible building. "The University's policy is to provide what's needed," Randolph says, adding that Harvard's policy is to keep disabled students in the mainstream and make sure they are not isolated from undergraduate life. Last year, the University, after an apparent oversight, added special ramps and seating to Harvard Stadium and this summer is making Leverett House wheel chair-accessible...
...soon as possible. However, that goal and scientific peer review are not mutually exclusive. To accomplish both goals, Keyworth might want to set up a more expeditious screening process for large projects he deems of national security, but it is important that there be some non-partisan scientific oversight before these funds are disbursed...
...Administration policy was further tarnished last week with the revelation that the Central Intelligence Agency had suggested to two congressional oversight committees last December that the CIA undertake a covert operation aimed at overthrowing the Marxist-oriented dictatorship of Desi Bouterse in the South American nation of Suriname. The idea was flatly turned down by Congress, on the ground that the CIA had failed to prove that the Surinamese government had fallen solidly into the Cuban and Soviet camp. If anything, the attempt seemed to help solidify congressional antagonism toward the kind of covert actions that the Reagan Administration...
...first time since the House Intelligence Committee was given its oversight role in 1977, the members split on party lines. The breakdown of the committee's traditional nonpartisan approach threatened to undermine its sensitive role. "The one thing I don't want is to see this committee deteriorate into a partisan group," lamented Boland after the vote...
Testifying before the House Public Works Oversight Subcommittee, Hernandez acknowledged that he urged Valdas Adamkus, head of the EPA's Midwest regional office, to hear Dow out on the report but denied ordering him to let company officials make changes. In a stunning public break with his bosses, however, Adamkus testified on Friday that his staffers had been "forced" by Washington headquarters to strike out the passages. Hernandez was angry that the Midwest office had prepared the report in the first place, Adamkus said, and was "denouncing our report and calling the work of our regional people 'trash...