Word: oversight
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...years, countless critics, from government watchdogs and consumer groups to industry officials, have railed against and exposed the nation's lax, inadequate airline-safety net, one they say has broken down in every aspect: policy, personnel, technology and oversight from the Federal Aviation Administration and Congress. After years of foot dragging, only recently has the FAA started to put stronger rules into effect, requiring more stringent employee background checks and training as well as mandating that all checked baggage be scanned by sophisticated bomb-screening devices--by 2014. Two weeks before the tragedy, a veteran pilot told TIME...
...prevent attacks on the U.S. may be justified, the possibility of covert assassinations gives one pause. The Constitution provides for the president to be Commander-in-Chief so as to maintain civilian control of the military. America can hardly be called a democracy if there is no democratic oversight over the use of force in our name. If the public disagrees with a president’s use of cruise missiles or Special Forces to take on a military threat, it can express that view at the next election; no such accountability is possible if actions are concealed...
Part of the problem is that virtually all the devices in place are operated by private firms that handle everything from installing the machinery to identifying violations--often with minimal police oversight--and have an incentive to pull in as many drivers as they can. The companies get paid as much as $70 a ticket, and the total revenue is hardly chump change. San Diego has raked in $15.9 million since October 1998, and Washington $12.8 million since August 1999. "It's all about money," says Congressman Bob Barr, a leading critic. Not so, insists Terrance Gainer, Washington's executive...
Conversely again, China's tenuous protest-music movement has focused on Western-influenced rock, which the government first banned (as a bourgeois and immoral influence), then in the late '80s grudgingly opened up to (as a talisman of capitalism), with heavy censor oversight. Just as China has spent the past decade trying to prove that communist capitalism is no contradiction in terms, so is it trying to show that defanged rock music can be the totalitarian capitalist's pal. (Take the danger out of rock and what do you have, if not a Britney Spears Pepsi commercial?) Arguably...
Scalise, who earned a masters degree from HBS in 1989, has worked in his current position, where he had oversight of the school’s $200 million budget, since...