Word: oversights
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...roil markets with rapid trades of stocks, bonds and currencies and that appear to be the main clients that have traded mutual fund shares in a way that is harmful to most mutual fund investors. For years, Congress and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) have talked about improving oversight of hedge funds and the industry in general. But not much was done--until Spitzer started paying attention. "It's been a wake-up call to Congress," says Burt Greenwald, a mutual fund--industry consultant...
...what is necessary to keep peace in the region, nor would the international community approve. Nation building must be a responsibility shared by many countries; it is a no-win proposition for the U.S. Yet pulling out is unthinkable. Having the U.N. join the effort in Iraq with U.S. oversight is the wisest course. Dan Cross Broken Arrow...
...with NCLB isn’t that it’s trying to get rid of those dumping grounds, but that it goes straight to the heart of America’s impoverished urban communities and brands the failing label into their schools, threatening fine institutions with sanctions and oversight. It acknowledges no difference between the most hopeful situations and the dumps that lost hope years ago. It calls good schools failures, and it fails as education reform...
...Sept. 11 attacks at the World Trade Center. In 1998, Bieber was appointed by then-FBI Director Louis J. Freeh to the FBI DNA Advisory Board and charged with developing quality assurance standards when handling DNA samples in criminal cases. Bieber was also appointed to the DNA Quality Assurance Oversight Committee at the Department of Defense...
...cases involving questionable conduct of the police, or gardaí. And last week, a report by the Council of Europe's Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) - its third on Ireland in 10 years - suggested Walsh's mistreatment is part of a persistent culture of violence and poor oversight in the Irish police. Walsh, 35, and her sister Ciara were walking through trendy Grafton Street with friends on a cool night in April 1998 when an unmarked police car reversed toward them. To avoid getting run over, Walsh banged on the trunk - for which she was arrested and hurled...