Word: overhauling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...picking up his car from the repair shop, the two Marine pilots expected their Bell AH-1 Cobra to be running smoothly when they went to retrieve it. After all, the two-man gunship had been in the Fort Worth, Texas, factory nearly a year for a $1.8 million overhaul. But Major Michael Browne and 1st Lieut. Robert Straw found enough problems with the chopper to delay their departure a day. Then, 20 minutes after they took off in the late afternoon of May 23, 1997, they were killed when their aircraft plunged into a field 15 miles southeast...
...executive director of Project ADAPT, a multimillion-dollar initiative which will overhaul the University's accounting systems, left last month to work at an Internet-based educational company--just as ADAPT's core systems whirred into place with few hitches...
...year ago Harvard upped each student's financial aid package by $2,000--a move aimed at giving students more free time and fewer loans. But the University only acted after Princeton, Stanford and Yale announced they would overhaul their financial aid policies...
...fast. By 1992 they were employing "hand-geometry" readers at a New Mexico elementary school. These machines, which record the unique features of each human hand, were used to ensure that children were picked up from school only by an authorized person. In 1996 Sandia mounted its first major overhaul at the high school in Belen, N.M. Using a combination of video cameras, drug-testing kits, metal detectors, mobile Breathalyzers, ID badges and antigraffiti sealants, Sandia engineered a 90% drop in vandalism and theft, a 98% decrease in campus intruders, 95% fewer car break-ins and 75% fewer fights...
NEXT STOP, EUPHORIA Amtrak has a new employee handbook, part of its effort to overhaul service. Expect...