Word: oversight
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...have a complaint to bring against the University, you don t know where to poke your stick.=interfaculty initiatives,=Power ultimately rests in those kinds of decisions,=very long-range issues.=physical planning,=shareholder responsibility,=a lot.=I think it works quite well because it separates governance from oversight,=a love of Harvard.=pretty amazing.=the prestige aspect.=fat cats and millionaires.=These guys know nothing about education,=They re all basically big capitalists.=sometimes there s the thought that other academics are needed,=they work hard at that=at the end of the day, they re going to appoint...
...intelligent reader doubts that Frost had a dark side. Dread--of the "beast" waiting in night and cold, of Frost's forsaken conviction that "there is no oversight of human affairs"--gnaws at the edges of his work. Frost was not writing Hallmark cards...
...credible system of public oversight,"Posner said. "It's going to take a lot of work;[about] 20 employees will work on this on afull-time basis. It's unrealistic to think theuniversities are going to be able to do a betterjob...
...Many attribute this lack of discussion to a growing consensus that committees can be trusted and no longer need the oversight of their colleagues, who are frequently removed from the issues at hand...
...face of the many flaws of the independent counsel statute, there are some in Congress who would rather just see the law expire instead of revising it. This would be a mistake. The basic principle of government oversight on which the law is based is a sound one and it is clear that an independent prosecutor law of some sort is necessary...