Word: oversight
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...continues to inject politics into drug decisions, it will undermine the credibility of its evaluations of drug safety. For the short term, the FDA should reconsider Barr Pharmaceutical’s application to make Plan B over-the-counter. For the long term, the FDA must acquiesce to permanent oversight in order to prevent missteps like these from happening in the future...
...into al-Jamadi's death conducted by the CIA, Army and Navy. While the documents, obtained by TIME, suggest a story more of recklessness than of outright savagery, the way al-Jamadi's death was handled after the fact raises questions about whether the CIA is under adequate legal oversight. This comes at a time when the government is hotly debating what restrictions to place on how U.S. security forces treat enemy detainees. Republican Senator John McCain has pushed through the Senate an amendment that would ban "torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment...
After high-profile alleged frauds like Refco's and another this summer at hedge fund Bayou Management, where managers shut down the firm without notice, the call for strict oversight is growing. Largely unregulated investment pools for institutions and the wealthy, hedge funds make big bets--up or down--on stocks, bonds, commodities and currencies. Officials are investigating trading records at 35 institutions as part of their probe into naked short selling. And starting in February, hedge-fund advisers must register with...
Such accountability, as well as more transparency and oversight, can be achieved through converting the HCC into a democratic body. A democratic process will encourage student polling and campus-wide research before multi-thousand dollar projects are undertaken. We disagree with McCambridge, who in response to criticisms that the HCC should have polled prior to pursuing Wyclef, only replied that, “It hadn’t been done before.” Instead, the HCC opted to survey student interest based on anecdotal evidence and informal chats. It comes as little surprise that the HCC failed to satisfy...
...variety of non-governmental organizations on children’s rights before joining the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, said that the current problems facing transnational adoption outweigh the benefits that children may receive. She cited unnecessary separations due to monetary incentives, lack of government oversight, and a lack of cooperation between international and domestic adoption agencies as the main flaws in the present system. Ortiz suggested that a system which involved increased government oversight and fewer separations between parents and children, such as the one in place in Paraguay, would reduce these problems. While Bartholet also...