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...detail, detail, detail oriented," Shemmer explains. "No spelling errors, no errors in numbers. It has to look professional.") Shemmer dials the boss on speakerphone. "Dino, babe," says the senior staffer caustically. Without a beat, Shemmer explains the error and tells him it's been corrected. "I apologize for the oversight," he says. (The lesson seems to be, never mention a problem to your boss without fixing it first.) The edgy reply: "Good. Don't do it again...

Author: By Adam A. Sofen, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: The Boys In the Bank | 12/2/1999 | See Source »

...freedom to opt out of paying the fee at all comes the freedom of the student body, through its elected representatives, to control how the funds are to be spent. Several of the other processes I have mentioned include significant student input, but ultimately are under institutional control and oversight in a way that the council fee is not. It was, in fact, one of the victories of my generation of students to be able to be able to control some of the allocation of its own money; now that my generation is in charge, today's students should...

Author: By Harry R. Lewis, | Title: Raise the Council Fee | 11/29/1999 | See Source »

...amid concerns that the FLA is too soft on industry, Harvard has also made a one-year deal with four other universities to coordinate sweatshop policies and monitoring systems. It has also hired an accounting and consulting firm, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, to conduct the oversight...

Author: By Gregory S. Krauss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Tracing the Source of Apparel | 11/16/1999 | See Source »

...holding more than $3 million in assets, has produced a wealth of headaches in recent years. And this week's migraine could be especially severe for John Reed, Citigroup's co-chairman. He's being hauled before the Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations to explain the bank's oversight of accounts controlled by a gallery of international reprobates and dictators. All kept tidy sums in Citi vaults; some of it was rightfully theirs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dictators' Savings & Loan | 11/15/1999 | See Source »

...beyond his political career or even lifetime. He agrees that the erection of institutions and legislation that support this cooperation has to start. He acknowledges that Cyprus is a paramount issue. The issues between Greece and Turkey have not disappeared and his optimism is not to be confused with oversight of the situation's gravity. Military interventions, international law disputes and the Kurdish dispute are still only some of the outstanding issues that plague the regional politics...

Author: By Osman F. Boyner and George Nikas, S | Title: Historic Foes See Hope for Friendship | 11/12/1999 | See Source »

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