Word: oversight
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DIED Boris Fyodorov, 50, a former Deputy Prime Minister under Boris Yeltsin, was a well-known reformer who co-founded the United Financial Group, one of Russia's leading investment banks. He spoke against corruption, demanding corporate oversight...
...their effort to sway at least a few Republicans, Democrats did take some of their concerns into account - including demands for long-term financial plans from loan recipients, increased oversight and taxpayer protections. But for most Republicans the moves don't go far enough. The GOP is asking for assurances that the taxpayers will be repaid - like the assurances given by the banking industry - and for a commission to ensure that the money is spent wisely, especially since all three companies are already so deep in debt (GM alone owes $48 billion). To that end, the GOP wants a change...
...citizens have known for quite a while. The country's growth--and intense competition among manufacturers in industry after industry--has gone far beyond the government's ability to regulate the economy effectively. In an ostensibly communist country, unfettered competition combined with nonexistent or, in many cases, corrupt government oversight has often produced a race to the bottom among businesses. Competition based on cost, in which manufacturers eke out slim profits by underpricing rivals, is by far the dominant industrial strategy. China, in short, is where the U.S. was in the early 20th century when Upton Sinclair wrote The Jungle...
...decision was approved by the Playing Rules Oversight Committee last year and was met with a varied response throughout the country. The women’s committee decided to keep its line at 19’ 9’’, meaning there will be two different distances and two different lines on Harvard’s home court this season...
...highlight of both careers. In a way, the album represents the meeting of two tremendously important careers, whose oeuvres owe much to the same influences but whose trajectories and legacies are unique. At the same time, the album’s scarcity is indicative of the near-universal oversight of this rich and rewarding musical niche. —Staff writer Ryan J. Meehan can be reached at rmeehan@fas.harvard.edu...