Word: overhaul
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ephemeral drift of public opinion and other obstacles seem to matter little to the Governor. In three months in office he has marched without hesitation into every political minefield in sight. He has promised to "dismantle" Chicago Mayor Richard Daley's Democratic machine. He has set out to overhaul the state's fiscal program, and in his spare time to reorganize the state Republican party...
...action on the part of the individual at the grass roots ever really be effective? It all depends on how we design our society. We must, for example, undertake a drastic overhaul of local government...
...asking Ford to overhaul seniority practices, the U.A.W. has clearly put the company on the spot. Inverted seniority, said Ken Bannon, Erector of the union's Ford department, would "sustain not only the personal but the community benefits of the hiring program you initiated." If for no other reason than to avoid charges of undermining that program, Ford has agreed at least to consider the plan...
...signer of the letter, does not remember discussing the required pro-seminar with the CRIMSON and saying, "nobody likes the course, it's very abstract and very general." Whether the students' suggestions that they be allowed to help write the syllabus and choose the reading list constitutes a "complete overhaul" of the course is, of course, open to debate. Surely Miss Kyle, a third signer of the letter, remembers saying Monday night that "the consensus of the meeting was that the required courses be made much more flexible...
...Suggestions were made that the required pro-seminar be lengthened to one year, and that the second semester cover a greater variety of fields of interest, but no one suggested a "complete overhaul of the required first-year seminar." Discussion of the format for the second half of the course included proposals for greater student participation in determniing the direction of the course...