Word: overhaul
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...slide." Still, there were those who argued, and last week saw their arguments vindicated, that Wilson's first act as Prime Minister should have been devaluation. He could justifiably have laid the blame on 13 years of Tory mismanagement and cleared the slate for the fundamental overhaul of the economy needed to make his Socialist dreams of progress for the country at least feasible...
Convinced that the time has come to overhaul its antiquated and uncomfortable system, New York City's Transit Authority recently announced a $5,800,000, six-station renovation program. It has also begun experimenting with air-conditioned, sound-proofed cars with fiber glass molded seats and hopes to cut down noise by laying rubber cushioning between the tracks and roadbed and by replacing short sections of track with longer, welded ones...
...Clean & Paint." By far the major undertaking of Tamm's men, however, is the work they do analyzing individual police forces in excruciating detail. One recent 498-page study of New York's finest called for a complete overhaul of the organizational machinery; then it described just how the new one should be set up, from the elimination of the slot for the department's No. 2 man right down to a cutback of the city's much admired but outmoded mounted patrolmen. In another study, Boston's force was told to raise salaries, lower...
Exactly two years after its explosion in fire, bloodshed and ugly fame, Watts last week showed a striking change of face. Two thousand youngsters worked cheerfully at $1.27 an hour to beautify the ghetto streets; 2,400 more sang and sweated to overhaul an Army camp. Trees were growing, flowers were planted, and the slum dwellers were even about to take up farming. Watts today is no man's El Dorado, but it is no longer a no-man's land. There are hopeful new blossoms in yesterday's burned-out jungle...
...queue up to play an intricate, 18-hole miniature course. Near by, tables buzz with games of checkers and pinochle. From handball courts comes the hollow thunk of ball against board. The country-club atmosphere is deceptive-and was planned that way as part of a wall-to-wall overhaul that in two years has transformed the Missouri State Penitentiary at Jefferson City from what a visitor once termed a "loathsome stone purgatory" into one of the nation's model prisons...