Word: overhaul
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reason for Kissinger's exhausting routine is that he still serves as presidential adviser for national security affairs and National Security Council chairman as well as Secretary of State. Another reason is that since moving to Foggy Bottom, Kissinger, between overseas trips, has been attempting to overhaul the creaky machinery of the U.S. State Department. Some staffers complain that Kissinger is too aloof and fails to delegate enough authority. On the other hand, notes Ambassador-at-Large...
...named Gilbert, 22, leads the choir and congregation in the first hymn. As the notes die, 28-year-old Jean-Paul, a wiry, lean-faced legal clerk standing at the sanctuary lectern, launches into a short homily on the meaning of Lent, likening the penitential season to an automobile overhaul. After more songs and the reading of the Gospel, Pierre, 66, a sturdy, gray-haired retired farmer, leaves his pew and walks to the tabernacle. There he removes a ciborium of communion hosts consecrated by the parish priest the week before and distributes them to his fellow congregants. Later...
...fare overhaul ordered by the CAB should raise industry revenues a bit more than 1% above last year's levels. Reason: most coach passengers take the short-haul trips that will become more expensive. Braniff International appears to be the biggest winner; its web of short routes across the Southwest will bring in a projected 3½% more revenue. National and TWA, both mostly long-haul carriers, will each lose about ½ of 1% in revenues. The nation's seven other domestic trunk lines will fall somewhere in between...
Missed Man. The first step in the Shula overhaul is "grading" films of last season's games. This is no cursory screening. Using an elaborate marking system, Shula and his six assistant coaches go over every play to grade the performance of each player. In reviewing last October's Miami-Cleveland game, for instance, Shula and his staff discovered 50 breakdowns in Dolphin defenses during the first half alone...
...their lapels to get them to tell the truth. Among his more celebrated stories: the uncovering of a bloodthirsty gang in the 1920s known as the Green Ones, and a series that won a Pulitzer Prize for the Post-Dispatch in 1952. Its detailing of corruption led to an overhaul of the Internal Revenue Bureau in Missouri and the resignation of William Boyle, then the Democratic national chairman...