Word: overhaul
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Britain, Canada, Sweden, Japan, France, West Germany, Italy, Belgium and The Netherlands-prepared for their conference in the turreted Foresta Hotel on a cliff overlooking Stockholm harbor. At a meeting of Common Market ministers in Brussels, France dropped a monkey wrench into the agenda by calling for a complete overhaul of today's monetary system and a return to the gold standard. The other five Common Mar ket countries rejected the idea on the ground that it was no time to debate the design of a new system when the old one verged on collapse. This was a sharp...
...that the refugee rolls had already been reduced from the initial 700,000 created by Tet to 405,000. > REFORM. Thieu announced that he intends to create two advisory bodies to his government, made up of leading Vietnamese: a National Planning Council and a Committee for Administrative Reforms to overhaul the creaking Saigon bureaucracy. Though he did not say so in his TV speech, Thieu also intends to continue replacing corrupt province chiefs, and hopes to cut the civil service of 220,000 people to half that number within a year. If those cut loose have trouble finding jobs...
Since the board has few formal operating rules, it needs in addition to examine the precedents that have grown in the four years since the last major overhaul...
...Walter Thompson. Complete service to clients - in principle, even to competing clients - could be rendered within the group's enterprises, with platoons of talent shifted around to cater to specific needs. It was a grand plan, but it went sour. In recent weeks Interpublic has undergone a major overhaul. More than 500 of some 8,000 employees have been dismissed. Harper, at 51, has been eased up to the chairmanship, and active command has been taken over by silver-haired Robert Healy, 63, a former McCann-Erickson chairman who was recalled from semiretirement...
Although I agree with you that more companies need to overhaul their recruitment practices and training methods, we must not over-generalize because changes are in progress...