Word: overhaul
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Where did the old Saturday Review go? Right up the street, as it turns out. Norman Cousins, who stalked away from SR and its new owners' overhaul plans seven months ago, last week put out the first biweekly issue of World magazine; it is the deadest of ringers for SR as it used...
Although a hard core of activists still criticized the continuing death and destruction in Vietnam, Nixon's cosmetic overhaul of the killing process placated dissent and the outrage felt by most students as recently as the May 1970 Cambodia invasion quietly slipped into history. Even the Harvard chapter of SDS, long noted for its opposition to the war, turned inward with its anti-Herrnstein campaign. A November 6 antiwar march drew only 5000 people from the entire Boston area: Harvard students guzzled beer at the Princeton game played on the same...
...convinced that what is needed is not a rise in their own taxes, but a plugging of loopholes that allow the rich to avoid a good part of their rightful obligation. Thus any general tax increase levied in the next couple of years will probably be preceded by an overhaul of the present tax code-no matter what administration is in power...
Unruffled in approving this major doctrinal adjustment, the Atlanta delegates poured most of their energy into a major overhaul of Methodism's labyrinthine system of national agencies. The other emotional issue was a Statement of Social Principles designed to update the venerable Methodist Social Creed and its E.U.B. counterpart. Here the conference cut back a relatively liberal draft version to fairly traditional lines. Where the proposed text said merely that sex is "most clearly" favorable within marriage, the final version avoids any implied endorsement of nonmarital sex. Where the proposed text affirmed that homosexuals are "persons of sacred worth...
...stitched together by its various theorists, populism calls for a drastic overhaul of the nation's economy-a kind of bargain-basement socialism. Its chief demand is one that has struck so responsive a chord in America that even President Nixon has started formulating a program of tax reform. Nothing has more outraged Middle-Forgotten-Populist Man as much as the fact that the wealthy often escape taxes while he is forced to cough up more and more. In calling for a fairer system and a closing of loopholes, the populists are being no more than eminently sensible. They...