Word: oversight
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...Corruption doesn't help. A Nigerian government audit of the oil industry last month showed discrepancies worth hundreds of millions of dollars between what oil companies say they paid the government and what authorities say they received. The federal government says it is tightening up its oversight. And there's the problem of what state governments do with the money they receive from Abuja. Thanks to high oil prices, Rivers, one of the biggest oil-producing states, has seen its revenues increase. But many schools still don't have furniture and roads are crumbling. Rivers' Information Commissioner Magnus Abe says...
...attention of the Freshman Dean’s Office. Dingman said that the students’ argument was persuasive. “I don’t think it was a case of serious discrimination,” Wattie said. “It was just an oversight.” —Staff writer Stephanie S. Garlow can be reached at sgarlow@fas.harvard.edu...
...eyed Negroponte's job. When the DNI began to take control of the agency that Goss had been named to run, Goss had nowhere to turn. The agency's normally loyal allies on Capitol Hill could not help him fight back because nearly all the lawmakers on the intelligence-oversight committees believed, if anything, that Negroponte wasn't moving fast enough with reform...
...will also graduate this year. Wolff’s band will perform directly after Carlisle’s, on the same stage. Ingrid Schorr, the Office for the Arts representative in charge of organizing the Performance Fair, says that the OFA provides “very little artistic oversight,” and that it attempts to extend Harvard’s resources to motivated students. Carlisle cites the OFA’s importance in her own musical development: “I’ve had a really dynamic relationship with OFA…what they do is really...
...student is generally trying to solve a legitimate problem...perhaps even an undiagnosed condition that would indeed benefit from medical treatment—and the student may or may not realize that using prescription medications without medical oversight is both illegal and very dangerous,” Lipson writes in an e-mail...