Word: oversight
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...general’s office discovered last month that the agency had been bilked, robbed and ripped off multiple times in the last year by contractors and employees. The amount of money involved has not been disclosed, but the individual examples of fraud show how serious the lapse of oversight has been. One NASA contract worker billed the Hubble Space Telescope Program for $27,000 of collect phone calls from prison inmates, according to The New York Times. In another shocking case, three students who worked at the Johnson Space Center in Houston stole a safe full of moon rocks...
Forum and Keffer request punitive and compensatory damages against Shleifer, Hay and Harvard, which they say has “vicarious liability” and was negligent in the oversight of its employees...
...government says Harvard was responsible for the oversight of Shleifer and Hay and that all three are liable under...
Harvard meanwhile continued to maintain yesterday that it had fulfilled its end of the contract with USAID. HIID provided assistance that USAID lauded at its time as historic, and Harvard had provided the oversight that it was responsible for, the University argued...
...risks of such casual oversight--coupled with the pressure that labs are under to produce evidence--were underscored last year when Oklahoma police chemist Joyce Gilchrist was fired, allegedly for committing scientific errors and misinterpreting results. The state is reviewing more than 1,000 cases she handled. Gilchrist denies any wrongdoing...