Sentences with phrase «oversights years in the making»

No single mistake enabled David Sweat and Richard Matt to break out of the Clinton Correctional Facility, but rather an array of oversights years in the making, set the stage for the prison break.

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The oversight board inspects about 50 audits a year by the big firms to make sure they meet regulatory standards, but it doesn't tell the accounting firms in advance which audits it wants to inspect.

The voluntary system had been two and a half years in the making and had been approved by the forum of state, federal and New Zealand ministers with oversight of food.

While my efforts to persuade the Board of Selectmen, the town manager, and the Rec Department director to allocate permits in a more equitable fashion, and to use their power to make sure that the programs using town - owned facilities met minimum standards for inclusiveness and safety, fell on deaf ears (we ended up being forced to use for our home games a dusty field the high school had essentially abandoned), I returned to a discussion of the «power of the venue permit» 10 years later in my 2006 book, Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and parents.

With oversight left in the hands of the likes of public - employee union devotees like Fertel, and board membership held by a City Manager with a constant «thumb» in the making of the municipal budget, and another board seat perpetually occupied by a Councilwoman charged with voting on these very same budgets year - in and year - out, what other result might be expected?

ALBANY — Though Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo made expanding oversight of public officials a centerpiece of his agenda this year, none of New York State's commissions or agencies specifically charged with policing ethical lapses received an increase in funding in his proposed budget.

At a City Council oversight hearing held a year ago, administration officials announced that more than 100 affordable apartments for seniors and a health care facility would be built at 30 Pike St., in part to make up for the loss of Rivington House.

Corroded steel or cast - iron pipes are ticking time bombs, a fact that made national headlines last year when a pipeline in San Bruno, California, exploded, killing eight people and prompting Senator Dianne Feinstein of California to propose a law that would bolster pipeline oversight and raise fines for any safety violations.

One year out of grad school, my family and I made a life - changing decision between staying on to teach at a university in Massachusetts, and returning to Alaska «just temporarily» to help with environmental oversight of Trans - Alaska (oil) Pipeline construction (1974 - 77).

Last July, in an effort to bring attention to the oversight, two pediatricians published a review in the Journal of Adolescent Health discussing the meager strides made in the two years since the creation of the diagnosis.

Several books have charted the years between Easy Rider and Heaven's Gate, when directors like Robert Altman and Michael Ritchie made «personal» pictures on relaxed schedules, with little in the way of studio oversight.

In an astonishing feat of investigative reporting, prize - winning journalist Dan Fagin recounts the sixty - year saga of rampant pollution and inadequate oversight that made Toms River a cautionary example for fast - growing industrial towns from South Jersey to South China.

The federal government made a stunning 179,000 «categorical exclusions» that allowed corporations — many with disastrous environmental records — to use stimulus funding to sponsor projects without submitting them to review under the nation's «most basic form of environmental oversight», a new report from the Center for Public Integrity found.Making matters worse, many of these projects were approved under the auspices of being «green» or clean energy projects (many more are transportation - related)-- thus helping to comprise the billions of dollars in funding for green projects that sent progressives» hearts aflutter two years ago.

Information Governance a year from now will shift from the oversight of known data sets such as email, document creation, voice and text to the oversight of inadvertently created, stored, lost, or stolen streams of data from smart devices that we make or use in the workplace.