Word: overhaul
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...those who fear that Special Concentrations will act as a concession and thus thwart any effort to overhaul Harvard according to some general plan-if Harvard does in fact need an overhaul-the inadequacies which the program will pinpoint will help determine what fundamental changes are needed. On the other hand, if the curriculum is actually healthy and does not need major alterations, then Special Concentrations will result in no more than the quiet accommodation of a few unconventional interests...
...with the great rise in institutional trading? By year's end the SEC is due to publish a long awaited report on this touchy subject. If direct trading in stocks is to be put under controls, it makes sense to adopt them only as part of a large overhaul of SEC rules...
...dole, deprives many others of needed help, vexes taxpayers and tolerates a wide range of inequities and abuses that cry out for reform. There was every indication last week, however, that the cry would not be heeded very soon. The Administration's 14-month-old proposal to overhaul the system has reached a legislative impasse...
...report's recommendations are as significant as its findings, because they would completely overhaul the command structure. Under the proposed plan, the 27 separate subdivisions that now report directly to the Secretary of Defense would be realigned into three functional groups: one for military operations, one for handling personnel and material resources, and one for managing finances and performing evaluation and testing of weapons systems. Each would be headed by a Deputy Secretary of Defense reporting directly to the Secretary. The Secretary's office staff, now 3,000 persons, would be cut by at least...
...DEATH: Heath was relying heavily on Iain Macleod, Chancellor of the Exchequer, to draft the blueprint for a new Tory economic structure, to overhaul the tax system and to restore incentives so as to "release the energies of the people." But last week Macleod died suddenly at 56 of a heart attack following an appendectomy from which he had seemed to be recuperating nicely. Macleod and Heath were charter members of the "One Nation" Group formed by liberal Tories in 1950. Borrowing Disraeli's philosophy as well as his phraseology, they sought to destroy the image of the Conservatives...