Word: oversight
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wake of this scrutiny, HIID has restructured its organization, reviewing its management and strengthening its oversight. Harvard has also created a new institute to take over some of HIID's functions, leaving many to question what the controversial institute's role will be in the future...
...HIID has not escaped scrutiny from theUniversity. Harvard hired the accounting firmCoopers and Lybrand, L.L.P. to review theInstitute's management structure. Their report,issued this summer, cited numerous problems withthe oversight of HIID's international operations,according to one source...
...problem is this. Many of the world's computers and microchip circuitry, the ones that run everything from cash machines and VCRs to interstate electric-power grids and intercontinental ballistic missiles, contain a programming oversight that makes them incapable of reading the date 2000. To represent years, computers generally use just the last two digits. When 1999--that's 99 in computer language--rolls over at midnight to 00, computers that have not had the glitch repaired will conclude that the date is 1900. That can lead to a surprising range of malfunctions, and not just in such obviously date...
...surely having a proper marriage is out of the question. But in 1996, apparently swept up in a fleeting wave of sentimentality, THE ARTIST BORN AS PRINCE married girlfriend MAYTE GARCIA in Minneapolis, Minn., on Valentine's Day. Finally coming to his senses, the artist last week rectified the oversight and announced that he is planning to annul his marriage, not because he doesn't love his wife, but because he believes "contracts are made by man to guarantee the possibility of divorce." At a Madrid press conference, the nameless--and occasionally pantless--one offered this provocatively convoluted explanation: "Mayte...
Congratulations on your superb report on the giants who laid the foundation for America's spectacular growth. But there was a major oversight: Henry J. Kaiser, road builder; steel, aluminum and magnesium producer; creator of jobs running into the millions; and finally, but not least, founder of Kaiser Permanente, America's largest and most successful health-care program. ALBERT P. HEINER Walnut Creek, Calif...