Word: overhauled
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Recognizing these failings, and seeking to renovate the Core, however, is one thing. Seeking to overhaul the Core, and in effect, the sole guarantee to our liberal arts education, is another. This staff may consider the reduction as encouragingly increasing course flexibility for students. Yet there is no guarantee that one extra course will be used to fulfill the purpose of a liberal arts education. And as the staff continues to support elimination of the Core, they are in fact dangerously mandating a reduction of those elements which make an undergraduate education a truly enlightening experience...
Although the council executives said they would like to overhaul the floundering student service next fall, they reached no final conclusion on the best course to take...
...United States government spends only a fraction of its time addressing abortion or gay rights. American troops are fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq may be next. President George W. Bush has dramatically altered the tax system and signed into law a bill that calls for a massive overhaul of public education. The FY 2003 budget is already in the red and we still haven’t sorted out how to deal with the national health care fiasco...
While election commissioners say there is some prospect of minor tinkering with the system, they say no major overhaul is planned...
...there's enough shame in Washington to keep the lobbyists at bay, the Chinese walls that crumbled so long ago at accounting and investment firms - between accounting and consulting, between investment advice and underwriting - may get a much-needed OVERHAUL. Accounting standards may be cleaned up; enforcement may be beefed up; tax shelters may be closed up. And if things go exceedingly well, it may all happen by, oh, summer? November? Next year? That's the speed of legislation in Washington - we'll be lucky if it happens...