Word: oversight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of Franklin Roosevelt, the ADA failed to notice that the world of the 1980s is far different from that of the 1930s. Perhaps the oversight came because most of the leaders of the ADA got their political education in the days when liberals, labor and minorities all co-existed in the harmony of the New Deal. More fundamentally, the Democrats may have been trying to gloss over the differences that exist within the liberal segment of their party by appealing to a figure with whom even Reagan, ironically a former member...
...gross and perhaps intentional oversight the student-Faculty Dowling committee formed by John B Fox Jr. dean of the College, had no minority members Because an important and significant portion of the undergraduate population went unrepresented, the Dowling report did not include any provisions to insure that the new government would represent these students and their special needs The constitution committee set out to correct this inadequacy and this proved to be a difficult and time consuming task...
Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University, last April called that failure an "oversight," and Harvard officials subsequently filed an amendment to the tax forms with the attorney general's office...
Harold W. Lewis, professor of Physics at University of California at Santa Barbara and a member of the oversight committee--which will disband September 30--called the report "a contribution, it collected a lot of the relevant facts together," but said it was no more significant than other works on the subject...
...Kennedy School of Government professors, appearing this week before the presidential Nuclear Safety Oversight Committee, presented a report which they hope could reshape the future policy debate on the governance of nuclear energy...