"For the environmental benefits in particular, there's a natural reason to move this thing forward," said Robert S. Kripowicz, acting assistant secretary of energy for fossil fuels and the main overseer of the clean-coal program.
Officials at the Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve, the main overseer of the banks, as well as the Comptroller of the Currency, also wanted a loose set of restrictions, according to people who took part in the drafting of the Volcker Rule who spoke on the condition of anonymity because no regulatory agencies would officially talk about the rule on Friday.
One internal stakeholder expressed the opinion that the MOH should not be the main overseer of nutrition, as prevention (rather than treatment) should be championed and therefore it should fall most under the remit of the Ministries of Agriculture, Industry and Education.
Mr. Goldberg, a veteran technology executive who sold a previous company to Yahoo, is also the husband of Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook's chief operating officer and one of the main overseers of the Web giant's rocky initial public offering last year.
Institutional Review Boards, the local bodies that check research on humans and are the main overseers of such research, are swamped with work, sometimes examining hundreds of proposals a year.
Topping the list is Europe's main bank overseer, the European Banking Authority.
In descending rank were the palace overseer, the main cupbearer, the palace administrator, and the governor of Assyria.
Of that, the Olympic Delivery Authority ODAA), overseer of the main building works, expects to spend £7.25 billion.
The main characters — Irina; her Valentina-like Polish overseer, Yola; innocent Andriy; and the vile Vulk, along with a few other heavies — feel like the sort of caricatures you might see on an episode of "The Simpsons" or in one of Sacha Baron Cohen's send-ups of sleazy, dopey foreigners.
But the main new power-brokers, says Mr Mukhin, are not oligarchs but "overseers": people such as Rosneft's Mr Sechin, his Kremlin boss, Dmitry Medvedev (on the board of Gazprom) and other advisers to Mr Putin with control over state firms.The fear is that although, unlike the oligarchs, these men are theoretically beholden to Mr Putin, the opposite may prove true.
Archeologists also discovered evidence of an added-on porch to one of the cabins facing away from the main house, an atypical feature for a slave cabin, as owners and overseers constructed quarters to be within their view at all times.
