Word: overhaul
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plot is thin, to say the least. The mayor of a provincial town and his partners in municipal mismanagement (Massachusetts pols could learn something from these guys) get word that an inspector general is coming, I suppose, to inspect the town. The mayor is worried and orders a general overhaul ("the more mess there is, the more it looks like municipal activity...
...Downing Street had become apparent, warned that the place was so dilapidated that the Macmillans were in imminent danger of crashing through the floor into the old air-raid shelter below. Hurriedly, the occupants moved around the corner to Admiralty House, and a top-to-bottom interior overhaul began on Nos. 10, 11 and 12 (the latter is home for the P.M.'s Party Whip). The initial timetable was two years; the initial cost estimate...
...have been acceptable in other ages, but many Catholics believe they are out of keeping with the renewal of the church urged by Pope John. In the Jesuit weekly America, Father Robert Graham makes a strong case for a new "civil rights" policy that would include a drastic overhaul of Holy Office procedures. A number of bishops-reportedly including New York's Francis Cardinal Spellman-have protested the instruction by the Congregation of Seminaries, and Pizzardo has advised papal nuncios and apostolic delegates not to circulate the decree...
...more vital because vocational schools are the main instrument for carrying out 1962's Manpower Development Training Act, which established federal-state programs to re-educate 400,000 unemployed people over the next two years. A few weeks ago, the House of Representatives passed a bill to overhaul vocational education, provide additional federal grants ($237 million a year by 1970), plus state and local matching funds...
...overhaul to assure that everyone now dodging his share of taxes starts paying up and to channel more money into "reproductive" investments and social services...