Word: oversight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...President must manage more than people. The fearfully complex systems and institutions in his care need executive oversight and control. It is not enough to say a President "can hire managers"; as he delegates, he must know how to keep track of the delegated work; he must understand what his managers are managing...
...explained that the hardest aspect of building the JFK memorial was "trying to catch Jack's style and grace" without the benefit of his personal advice and oversight...
...ever defined the permissible scope of activities of the NSA, yet its budget and staff are many times larger than any other American intelligence organization. Undoubtedly, the demands of national security require the surveillance of possible foreign agents. But the NSA remains unduly immune to public or Congressional oversight...
...Canadian relationship that has grown increasingly frosty. Washington is concerned by what it sees as the nationalistic and discriminatory investment policies of Trudeau's Liberal government. Those worries have been expressed vocally in the U.S. Congress. Last week Congressman John Dingell, chairman of the House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, attacked Canada for "unfair and confiscatory policies in the energy and investment areas." According to a report issued by the subcommittee, those policies are "having a strongly adverse impact on the Canadian subsidiaries of U.S. corporations." Indeed, so strong is the feeling in Congress that, according to Canadian Ambassador...
...Bank of England. Cutler whispered that there was no way to transfer the Iranian money: the Federal Reserve Bank of New York had no funds available. Fortunately, a shift of funds among the banks of the Federal Reserve System corrected the problem. We had narrowly avoided a most embarrassing oversight...