Word: oversight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Before he disappeared, Lewis told Wells Fargo investigators enough of what he had done to allow them to unravel the scheme. Meanwhile, separate investigations unearthed at least two other examples of banking abuse by Wells Fargo officials, raising questions about just how effective the bank's oversight practices are. So Cooley decided last week to assert that the nation's eleventh largest bank had not become an embezzler's playpen. He sent a letter to the bank's 15,000 employees, detailing what has been learned of the scam, and started talking to newsmen. Said...
...committee is expected to vote to confirm Haig this week, even without access to the tapes. However, the Senators plan to continue to seek any tapes relevant to Haig as part of their continuing oversight function, a process likely to take months...
...month Lady Barnett, 62 and widowed ten years, faced a panel herself: a jury considering charges that she shoplifted a tin of tuna and a carton of cream worth about $2. She admitted slipping the items into a cloth bag pinned inside her coat, but insisted it was an oversight, and she told the court the cloth bag was where she kept a flashlight as protection against muggers. Lady Barnett was convicted and sentenced to pay $650 in fines and court costs. Said she: "I have only myself to live with, and I can live with myself." Four days later...
...truth. It lends added point to the perennial debates about whether the basic constitutional structure of the office should be "modernized." Certainly we should consider such proposals as limiting the President to a single six-year term, or creating a second vice presidency to assist with day-to-day oversight of the Executive Branch. However, while we can dream about tinkering with the constitutional arrangements, the fact of the matter is that whoever is President for the next four years will have to deal with the office as it is - including all of its frustrations, its limitations and its demands...
Crowell said McCann has not filed one significant piece of legislation in ten years. She added that the Senate Post-Audit and Oversight Committee, headed by McCann, is designed to review how state money is spent but "has not met for the past year...