Word: overhaul
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...approaches to dealing with the oil cartel, the two leaders also defrosted Franco-American relations a bit. At home, the Administration's energy experts finally completed the package of options from which Ford must select hard choices (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS). Rumsfeld finished work on a White House staff overhaul ("It's pure Jerry Ford," he said). And, at long last, a glaring void was filled when Nelson Rockefeller was confirmed and sworn in as Vice President...
...space officials could only hope that the Russians were right. Although the U.S. Apollo spacecraft has more than demonstrated its incredible capabilities on eight missions to the moon, the Soviets are still ironing the kinks out of Soyuz. The workhorse of the Russian manned space program underwent a radical overhaul after three cosmonauts were killed when a hatch seal failed in a 1971 flight. Even that redesign did not eliminate all the bugs. At the time of its previous test in August, Soyuz 15's thrusters failed during an attempted linkup with an unmanned Salyut space station...
...Cambridge Housing Authority receives financial assistance from the state, making it subject to DCA action. After a meeting with Cambridge housing officials last Tuesday, Crampton announced that for a month five or six DCA officials will authorize all CHA expenditures, control occupancy and rental plans and overhaul the current operating budget. The CHA will be placed indefinitely on a schedule of weekly budgets, weekly DCA reviews and monthly financial reports...
Sadat has already begun what he describes as a "liberalization in all fields," meaning a far-reaching political and economic overhaul of Egyptian society. His predecessor, Nasser, tried to build Arab socialism by turning the country into a police state: newspapers were censored, telephones tapped and xenophobia was so encouraged that uncomfortable foreign businessmen went home. Today the concentration camps are empty. Moreover, fewer telephones are tapped, and the secret police are at least less visible. The new editor of the semi official Cairo daily al Ahram is Ali Amin, a journalist who spent nine years in exile during...
...study entitled, "College and University Tax Exemption and the Need for Tax Structure Reform in Massachusetts." In its preliminary description of the problems, the FRB said that "we believe that the real villain is Massachusetts' extraordinary reliance on the local property tax. We hope to show that a general overhaul of the tax structure would be mutually advantageous to the universities and colleges, to their host communities, and to low and middle income citizens as well...