Word: overhauling
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Restoring a lower tax rate for capital gains would reverse a major part of the 1986 tax overhaul, generally recognized as the biggest domestic achievement of the Reagan administration. That law cut tax rates across the board, but ended special treatment for capital gains and reduced or ended such deductions as state sales taxes and Individual Retirement Accounts...
...carriers faced the prospect of mounting debt, an aviation task force of public and private experts piled new demands on the industry's maintenance crews. The panel called for a $563 million overhaul of 1,900 aging McDonnell Douglas jetliners around the world, including some 900 DC-8s, DC-9s and DC- 10s. The recommendations, which the Federal Aviation Administration is expected to endorse swiftly for U.S. planes, would range from replacing rivets to reskinning entire jets...
...task force was launched last year after a section of fuselage ripped off an Aloha Airlines 737, sucking a flight attendant out of the plane. The group's report on McDonnell Douglas aircraft followed a May FAA order for the overhaul of 1,300 vintage Boeing aircraft. Taken together, the moves were aimed at rejuvenating the 3,300-jet U.S. fleet, which averages 13 years of service per plane and is the oldest in the non-Communist world...
...heavy at United's 140-acre repair center in San Francisco, the largest in the U.S., that the carrier has begun to phase out its lucrative business of providing maintenance for other airlines. Maintenance projects at the base can require up to 100,000 mechanic-hours for the overhaul of a single 747 jumbo jet. "We've added 3,000 people in less than a year," says Joseph O'Gorman, United's senior vice president for maintenance operations, "and we're looking at another 1,000 in the next six months for the care and feeding of older planes...
Despite tumultuous efforts to overhaul it, the College's procedure for assigning students to residential houses emerged relatively unscathed last year. But the issue is far from settled. And Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 is vowing to randomly assign at least 50 percent of the spaces in each house--a radical change from the current "choice-based" system...