Word: overhaul
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...rural development ("gardening the national territory"), urban improvement, school construction to redeem what one minister calls "our terrible rendezvous with youth." The nation's administrative structure, which has wheezed along with little change since Napoleon's time, will be modernized. Gaullist technicians are already planning to overhaul Paris. Though 18% of the entire population is concentrated in the capital and growing by 100,000 a year, officialdom seems more concerned with preserving old houses than providing new ones. Says one minister: "We're going to take Paris out of the age of the fiacre...
Belin's principal concern on the Council has been the overhaul of the Council's parliamentary procedure. He was chairman of a special committee to revise the Council's rules; among the more import and changes subsequently adopted was a provision requiring councillors to submit motions at least five days before Council meetings, in order to insure proper consideration by the members...
...work of 75,000 civil servants. He had voted against creating the post when he was in the House back in 1950; he still thinks the department should be divided into three parts. He was generally rated as a capable, hardworking administrator who got good marks for his complete overhaul of the nation's welfare program. But it was obvious to Ribicoff-and to others-that he was languishing in the backwaters...
Munoz Grandes' appointment was only one change in Franco's first major Cabinet overhaul since 1957. With Spain's application pending for association with the Common Market and with the growing demand for social and economic liberalization in the wake of last spring's crippling strikes, Franco purged the Cabinet of seven reactionary old ministers. The important replacements are younger than their predecessors and more oriented to the economic and political reforms of the New Europe. They include...
...foreign capital. But the heart of the problem, said Rockefeller, was the general posture of the U.S. economy, in which he saw "a vicious circle of events; namely, a constant rise in costs, a squeeze on profits, and a serious lag in investment." Rockefeller suggested that a thoroughgoing overhaul of the nation's tax system was essential, but he questioned the Government's ability to make its planned tax reforms effective while great increases are occurring in Government spending. Said he: "I would urge upon you a more effective control of expenditures and a determined and vigorous effort...