Word: overhauling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...will be squarely on the middle grades, as more than 200 educators, lawmakers and health specialists gather in Washington to discuss an ambitious report sponsored by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Titled "Turning Points: Preparing American Youth for the 21st Century," it calls for a sweeping middle school overhaul aimed especially at helping "those at risk of being left behind." Among other things, the report recommends...
...Other well-worn lines have not fared so well in the new hymnal, the most thorough overhaul since 1878. The latest version, 3 million copies of which are being shipped to churches, carries only half the 547 hymns contained in the previous, 1966 edition. Of those, 162 survive with rejiggered words. The most significant alterations involve not war and peace but the battle of the sexes. With women destined to form half of Methodist clergy early in the 21st century, the 16-man, nine-woman hymnal committee desexed many a familiar line that was deemed to perpetuate male bias...
...China the forces for transformation bubble up from below, while in the Soviet Union they are marshaled from above. But in both cases there is recognition that the system needs a drastic overhaul. -- How far will China's hard-liners go to keep the lid on discontent? -- Presiding over the most freely elected legislature in his country's history, Gorbachev hears the clamorous voices of the people...
...among many other cases, will be aired next month by the House Commerce, Consumer and Monetary Affairs subcommittee in what could be the most extensive and embarrassing examination of the IRS since Watergate. While the subcommittee has not discovered the widespread bribes, kickbacks and blackmail that led to an overhaul of the IRS in the 1950s, its yearlong probe has unearthed evidence of disturbing misconduct: several instances of alleged wrongdoing by high-level IRS officials in the past five years and an attempted cover-up by the agency's image-conscious leaders...
...about to go the way of the apothecary jar. Hoffmann-La Roche last week announced that it plans to restructure its capital by declaring a 50-for-1 stock split. The move will reduce the value of the 16,000 voting bearer shares to about $3,300 each. The overhaul will also cut the price of Hoffmann-La Roche's 61,440 shares of nonvoting dividend-rights certificates, which the company calls Genussscheine or "joy certificates," from about $95,000 to $1,900 and eliminate a cheaper class of stock that was nicknamed Baby Roche. If holders approve the restructuring...