Word: overhaul
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Going Like 60. With all this welcome overhaul for the safety cocoon, the airlines and pilots still find plenty to squawk about. Pilots charge that FAA inspectors are harassing them. Indeed, the inspectors, backed heartily by Quesada, seem to materialize in cockpits like eager gremlins, ready to slap a fine on a pilot for the slightest infraction of the rule book. With each infraction, Quesada gets tougher. After a Pan American Boeing 707 started into a near fatal dive while its pilot was back chinning with the passengers, Quesada enforced a long-disregarded regulation requiring all pilots to stay...
While the number of workers available in the next ten years will be sufficient to continue the economy's growth, the uneven distribution of workers, said Mitchell, "will require a major overhaul in the employment policies of many businesses." Therefore, employers will have to hire older workers and abandon policies against hiring workers because of their sex, race, religion or nationality...
...stay and help do something about the schools, they resort to private schools or the suburbs.'' Yet "a first-rate school system is within the grasp of New York City." The job begins with recovery of the purpose of the schools-education. It begins with "a drastic overhaul" of school administration -complete divorce from the city's politicians. And perhaps most of all, urged Heald, it begins with privileged citizens' remembering that "it is your children who are being shortchanged...