Word: overseen
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Just three years ago, North Korean saboteurs bombed a Korean Air Lines plane in the hope of sabotaging the Seoul Olympics and killed 115 people; now, having seen unification come to Germany and even Yemen, Pyongyang is talking more than ever of a "confederal republic" with two regional governments overseen by a single central committee...
...this expansive growth has come with heavy costs--costs Bok did far too little to mitigate. The president has overseen the birth of Harvard, Inc., a massive corporate empire that does not fully weigh the ethical implications of its actions. On investment policy, on some academic questions, in the interaction with students, Bok has performed more like a stability-minded CEO than an enlightened scholarly leader...
...Thus, at the very moment the U.S.S.R. was being formed, Lenin was aware of its explosive nature. He realized that if his original proposal was formally implemented without guaranteeing the rights of republics, the union would eventually be transformed into a notorious ruler of the center over the republics, overseen by what he called the "Great-Russian chauvinist, villain and tyrant, which is what a typical Russian bureaucrat is." After Lenin died in 1924, his worst fears became a reality under Stalin...
...National will be overseen by Frank Deford, a former SPORTS ILLUSTRATED writer and NBC commentator who was six times named sportswriter of the year. Deford, who has not edited a publication since his days at Princeton, says he will write a column after the start-up, and regards managing editor Van McKenzie as day-to-day chief...
...most conservative of atmospheric models, our gaseous waste products may lead to an average rise of global temperature by 1 to 4 degrees Celsius during the next 50 to 100 years. Other models are in place in the United States, Great Britain, and Japan, each of which is overseen by a group of scientists working daily to reduce this uncertainty...