Word: oversights
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...also facing renewed Kremlin oversight of oil and gas production. After a period of privatization and deregulation in the 1990s, oil-industry specialists say, the pendulum has swung the other way. That doesn't mean the central government wants to nationalize all energy assets, but it has put an end to generous tax breaks and has introduced other limitations on the private sector, particularly foreign companies. Under the terms of the Conoco deal, for example, the American company can raise its stake in Lukoil--but only to a ceiling of 20%. That's less than the 25% it needs...
...that the courts have very little authority to review the cases of individual detainees. Theirs was a proposal for a dramatic expansion of Executive power. And when detainees fought their cases up to the Supreme Court, the White House continued to insist that the judiciary did not have much oversight in the matter. The White House lost...
While Harvard and Yale undergraduates recognize that their colleges and student leaders are working to make the event as enjoyable as it was in the past, some say that the new administrative oversight has dampened The Game’s appeal...
...Department of Energy, went ahead and used it as the basis for a July 2002 report arguing that Saddam was beginning to reconstitute his nuclear weapons programs (whereupon he received a big pay bonus). I don’t believe the CIA should be exempted from political oversight, but neither am I eager to see the whole-scale politicization of our national intelligence apparatus...
...expect that more professor oversight will eliminate the problem of inconsistent TF grading at the College. But we believe that professors, who have a great deal more experience judging student work and have a better handle on the expectations of a particular course, should grade at least a share of student papers and read over work TFs have already graded for quality control...