1.   A lot of people at the firm could have known about the document destruction, or should have known, had they been exercising appropriate oversight.

2.   Commissioners said they are sensitive to the problems of the past and will exercise proper oversight of the ATD.

3.   Gramm had held up the measure for weeks by seeking transfer of this authority to the SEC, which said it lacked the funds to exercise this oversight.

4.   It was confirmation from an unexpected source that secrecy can keep Congress from exercising diligent oversight -- and that without oversight, there is little incentive to control costs.

5.   Jacobs refuses to accuse Pohlad of mismanaging MEI or fault himself for not exercising better oversight as a director.

6.   Morita and his successor as Sony chief executive, Norio Ohga, perhaps because they were worried about stirring up anti-Japanese sentiment, exercised little oversight.

7.   Nonetheless it found that trustees of the bid and organizing efforts failed to exercise adequate oversight, even though they had access to managers and the books.

8.   Of course, Congress should create a select committee to exercise oversight.

9.   Republicans are joining Democrats to say that the administration should cooperate with Congress and supply the information that lawmakers need to exercise appropriate oversight.

10.   The committee, chaired by Lieberman, was questioning former regulators and other experts on whether the government failed to exercise proper oversight of Enron.