It was journalism that held the responsibility for seeing who we were and noticing what we did.
The NRC took over the AEC's responsibility for seeing that civilian nuclear materials and facilities are used safely and affect neither the public health nor the quality of the environment.
Now, with Kevin Pietersen promoted to the top of the order, Prior is being cast as England's "finisher" – the middle-order batsman with the responsibility for seeing the team to a big total or guiding them to a target.
Power companies that were responsible for both generation and delivery to a prescribed geographic area have been replaced by a patchwork of greedy companies that share no responsibility for seeing that output actually reaches their consumers.
That is partly because central government has sucked power from them, dictating targets and practices; one aim of the current reform is to reduce interference in local policing by Whitehall.But Nick Herbert, the policing minister, and others think the main weakness is the lack of identifiable individuals with clear responsibility for seeing that local needs are addressed.
"I think that the sheer turnout" of the vote, Jordan E. Kurland of the American Association of University Professors, said, "should tell everybody, not just the trustees of N.Y.U. but the general public, that the professors — those who have basic responsibility for seeing through the academic processes — are much more involved than they have been in the past".
It lays the blame at the door of the BHA and the stewards it has in place at Britain's racecourses, stating: "The main responsibility for seeing that punters are not short-changed rests with the stewards, who must be seen to be imposing the rules with firmness and consistency.
Asked if the board bore any responsibility for not seeing warning signs earlier, Ms. Anderson said no. "We had regularly scheduled finance committee meetings and board meetings, and at each of these meetings the financial statements that were presented were thoroughly reviewed," she said.
We take full responsibility for not seeing this possibility ahead of time.
And Summers -- well, you know the drill by now -- you preside over a monumental and high-profile fuck-up, like the formative stages of the economic catastrophe from which we will be digging out for years to come, and you can expect rewards commensurate with such a failure -- responsibility for over-seeing our response to the crisis, and fawning profiles in places like the New Yorker.
