Word: overhauling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...effort to reverse the Reagan Administration's tight policy on information control, two top Harvard administrators this week released a report calling on President Bush to overhaul federal practices involving the dissemination of information...
Senate Ways and Means Committee Chair Patricia MacGovern (D-Lawrence), whose committee must approve the budget, has requested that Dukakis rescind his proposal and overhaul the plan before resubmitting...
...Whale has been temporarily repaired, but will require a major overhaul next summer...
Fourteen years after Federal Judge Arthur Garrity ordered crosstown busing to desegregate Boston's public schools, the city is embarking on another overhaul of its troubled educational system. Last week local experts hired by Mayor Ray Flynn proposed a new approach, called controlled choice, that seeks to foster competition while maintaining the painfully achieved racial balance. Next fall schools through Grade 8 would be divided among three equally funded zones, with 14,000 students apiece. Within each zone, parents would be allowed to choose a particular school for their child, and pupils would be assigned to available spots...
...embarked on a major overhaul of both its plants and its products. The results are beginning to show. Late last month the company reported earnings of $859 million for the third quarter, a 5.8% rise from a year ago. That uptick is stronger than it looks: taking into account some bookkeeping changes that inflated last year's profits, the latest earnings amount to a 104% increase...