Word: oversight
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Unlike places like Texas—where big athletics seemed to exist with virtual free reign, able to do what they wanted with little oversight from university officials—sports programs at Harvard were often in close contact with the the upper levels of administration, perhaps indicative of their relatively low stature...
...administration’s willingness to actively intervene in the student publication’s elections raised serious concerns about the independence of the collegiate press. Universities, like society at large, rely on a free press to provide a check on administrative authority and misuse of power. Administrative oversight, has a chilling effect by forcing students to weigh their journalistic duty against fear of disciplinary sanction from the university. No journalist—student or professional—should have to make such a choice. We applaud efforts to give legislative protection to the collegiate press, such as a bill...
Praxeres, executive director of the National Petroleum Agency, insists it won't happen. São Tomé has constructed a watertight system of oversight and transparency, he says, that will take petrol revenue out of government hands and put it under the control of an independent commission. The government has even set up an account at the Federal Reserve in the U.S. to hold all the cash that it expects to flood in. "We've learned the lessons of Africa," says Praxeres. "We have to use the money to invest in education, infrastructure and health - a future that...
...Since coming to Washington, Obama has actively worked to embrace the proposals of the Iraq Study Group and has proposed a comprehensive plan, which sets benchmarks for Iraq’s progress, encourages outreach to Iraq’s neighbors for help, and establishes oversight to correct the mistake of giving the President a blank check for an unplanned...
...Mica says the real problem is Congressional politics, not the Architect of the Capitol or a lack of oversight. "I could directly attribute the delays and cost overruns to members of Congress who couldn't make a decision, or made them and they weren't good," he says. For example, Mica says that Congress initially was going to reserve 160,000 sq. feet of undeveloped space inside the CVC facility for future office use. But in 2001, lawmakers realized it would be cheaper to develop the office space immediately. This change caused at least a year in delays, which...