Word: oversight
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...without sharing information with the seller that soon boosted its value. But it wasn't until after the 1929 stock-market crash that Congress passed laws to limit such trading (although it didn't move to ban it outright) and created the Securities and Exchange Commission to enhance market oversight. As the stock market expanded in the 1960s, the SEC grew more aggressive in fighting insider trading, relying on a general prohibition against securities fraud. In 1987, the Supreme Court ruled that a former Wall Street Journal reporter, R. Foster Winans, and two associates were guilty of mail and wire...
According to Khandelwal, Nelson continued to raise concerns about adequate supervision and insisted on oversight of the event by either resident tutors or Beverage Authorization Teams—graduate students trained to prevent underage drinking. Khandelwal said that both options are unfeasible due to financial constraints and staffing challenges...
...conversation was spurred by The Harvard Crimson’s publication of a controversial advertisement in early September that suggested the Holocaust did not occur. The Crimson issued a statement the following day, explaining that the publication of the advertisement had been a result of miscommunication and failed oversight...
...Given the two sides' sharply different ideas on the end point of their mutual journey, it's not easy to agree even on substantial "confidence building" measures. Iran appears to be open to greater safeguards and oversight of its ongoing nuclear work, like opening its hitherto secret enrichment facility under construction at Qum to inspection for the first time on Oct. 25. But at the same time, it is expected to push back against some provisions of the Vienna deal...
...still in effect - along with three other so-called emergencies that collectively had activated 470 provisions of federal law. For 40 years, the U.S. government had accidentally authorized the President to seize property, control production, institute martial law and restrict travel at any time. Congress rectified this oversight with the 1976 National Emergencies Act, which terminated all existing emergencies over the next two years and put in place a series of rules by which all future emergencies would operate...