Word: oversight
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...colleagues she would not support any effort to impeach President Bush. At the same time, John Conyers, a Michigan Democrat who has been the most enthusiastic supporter of that idea, took down a reference to impeachment from his website. Democratic strategists have advised the party to use the term "oversight," suggesting they will be a check on the GOP, rather than the more ominous "hearings...
...believe that it’s inappropriate for the Dover Amendment to apply to an institution that owned such a large percentage of real estate in the city,” says Alec Wysoker ’84, a Cambridge resident who has served on the oversight committee regulating Harvard’s expansion into the Riverside neighborhood.Harvard also angered its neighbors by allegedly disregarding a self-imposed boundary on its development. In 1972, Harvard drew a line around the neighborhoods in which it already had educational buildings and promised not to develop outside that line. “They...
...State are seeking strength in numbers. The 600 families of the Foster Parent Association of Washington State have formed an unprecedented alliance with the state's largest union. They hope the power of the union, the Washington Federation of State Employees, will spur the Children's Administration to improve oversight and provide better training for foster parents. (State officials declined to comment.) The whole system is "in crisis," says Mary McGauhey, foster mom to two children with special needs. "Families are asked to care for children they just aren't trained to handle...
...Fourth Amendment, which requires probable cause and warrants for such investigations. The Founding Fathers never said the Bill of Rights had to pass a popularity test in order to be enforced. The phones of suspected terrorists have been and should continue to be monitored--with court supervision. Without such oversight, the possibility for abuses of private information is very real...
...Though the hearings were a distant reality for most undergraduates, Kamin, a graduate student employed by the Harvard Corporation as a teaching fellow, was vulnerable to the Red Scare.“McCarthy maintained that he was not investigating Harvard, but that since his committee franchise included oversight of defense plants and Harvard accepted research grants from the Department of Defense, Harvard was in effect a defense plant—and I was an employee of Harvard,” wrote Kamin.‘RABID ANTI-ANTI-COMMUNIST’“What brought it into more intense...