Word: overhauling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...they have. The Institute of Medicine, a branch of the National Academies, issued a report last week calling for a major overhaul of the nation's health-care system. Aptly titled "To Err Is Human," it explores the reasons doctors and nurses make mistakes, which can include drugs with names so similar that they're easy to confuse (see PERSONAL TIME: YOUR HEALTH) and duty shifts so excessively long that physicians and interns fall asleep on their feet (see accompanying story...
...Many editors-elect called for an overhaul. The New Yorker (slummed down)? Something like Newsweek? Or The New York Times Magazine? Had we ever read Fluff at Night...
...Achilles' heel: Bush will be left open to criticism because he couldn't find room for a capital gains tax cut. "Steve Forbes will attack it as a half-measure, as a tweaking of the system, not an overhaul," says TIME Washington correspondent James Carney. But the bigger problems could come in a general election. Recent polls show that voters are more concerned with further reducing the national debt and shoring up Medicare and education than with tax cuts. So while wooing much of his own party, Bush could alienate many of the "Reagan Democrats" who are less concerned with...
...renovations will include a complete overhaul of its athletic fields, playground repair and replacement, landscaping improvement and new sidewalk lighting, Barrios said...
McCain's fire has been on display for a while, and it has often served a useful purpose. It kept him going for 5 1/2 years as a POW. It sustained him through withering opposition to his attempts to overhaul campaign finance and regulate tobacco. Precisely because he is willing to rip up the rule book and stomp around a little bit, McCain has won the hearts of those who recognize that if Washington is going to be changed, it requires wrinkling a few ties...