Word: oversight
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Despite earning strong scores on his Iowa Test of Basic Skills (ITBS) in Grade 3, Davin wasn't invited to join the school's talented-and-gifted (TAG) program until the following year--an oversight Knipfer attributes to the family's social standing in a small town. Laura runs a day-care service in their home, and her husband Russell is a truck driver. "We're low income, and I'm not in the local political game," she says. (School superintendent Jody Gray denies this and says Davin was enrolled in TAG as soon as the school recognized his gifts...
Goss, who has spent several days at CIA headquarters studying for the hearing, could also be grilled on what some Democrats regard as his committee's lax oversight of intelligence matters--failing to correct problems that, according to the 9/11 commission and other investigations, may have paved the way for 9/11 and intelligence mistakes on Iraq. But that line of questioning could backfire. Goss and his defenders could point out that, whatever shortcomings Goss's committee can be accused of in the years leading up to 9/11 and the Iraq war, the same could be said of the Senate intelligence...
...agreed to become the first luxury fashion house to abide by a stringent voluntary labor code, the company confirmed last week to TIME. The leather and apparel firm, a division of France 's Pinault-Printemps-Redoute, pledged earlier this month that Gucci headquarters outside Florence and a nearby production oversight facility will soon face regular audits to see that they meet international standards of proper hours, pay, union rights and worker safety as established by Social Accountability International (SAI), a New York City-based corporate responsibility group. Gucci will be one of more than 40 companies in Tuscany to sign...
...part of a battery of changes that will increase oversight of student groups this fall, the College has created online sites for groups to register each year and to request event space...
...while Ogletree also suggests that his ever-looming deadlines contributed to his oversight, his work’s integrity should have come first. Perhaps he should have spent more time reviewing his assistants’ work before putting his name on it and having it published...