Word: oversights
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...American accounting rules, showed net income was just €120 million - almost 90% less. However tempting the Enron comparison may be, no allegations have so far emerged of massive and systemic fraud by top management; instead, the two men may have resigned to take responsibility for their lack of oversight. At the heart of the problems at the U.S. food-service operation are "promotional allowances," a standard industry practice whereby food companies pay retailers and caterers (like Ahold's subsidiary) to ensure their products get precedence over those of their competitors'. Henny de Ruiter, the chairman of the supervisory board...
Several Harvard officials stress that Merck will have minimal oversight of the use of the $1 million, since it is a gift and not a contract or grant—donations over which benefactors have more strict control...
...danger of unraveling. And Karzai himself is all too aware that Washington's attention has shifted elsewhere. He came to the White House to plead for Afghanistan not to be forgotten, two weeks after it was reported that the Bush administration had - apparently as a result of an oversight - neglected to ask Congress to allocate any money for Afghan aid in its current budget...
...Professor Kagan is well-respected. No one is going to think less of him for acknowledging the oversight,” Snedeker said. “I hope that this will remind reviewers and editors of Nature that they also have an obligation to ensure that the proper work is cited...
...condemned murder suddenly begins pleading innocence, and another convict claims to have committed the crime—loosely parallels the case of former Illinois death row inmates Rolando Cruz and his co-defendant Alex Hernandez, whom Turow represented in appeal in 1991. A fabricated confession, as well as significant oversight and mishandling of the case by detectives, led to their false convictions in 1983. After a third trial, Hernandez’s sentence was reduced to 80 years in prison. Cruz, however, remained on death row until 1995, when both convictions were overturned—the result of a private...