Word: overhaul
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...male bias of the prostitution laws; "the trick is never prosecuted," they point out, but one of them adds that she doesn't see anything illegal in an exchange between two consenting adults. Oppression has not made revolutionaries out of these women. They are not asking to overhaul the system, but to be allowed to ply their trade within...
...intelligence agencies. Yet the probes were so haphazardly and sometimes vindictively conducted and so many secrets were leaked that public opinion has appeared to shift back in support of the embattled agencies. In this climate, President Ford seized the initiative last week and ordered the first big overhaul of the agencies since the CIA was created in 1947. The sweeping reorganization conceded little to the agencies' critics. In a 36-page Executive order, the President focused responsibility, clarified lines of authority and made the entire intelligence community more cohesive-on paper at least...
Parker said that trustee sentiment in the past few weeks has shifted from the "full support" declared on several occasions by the board last year, to a desire on the part of some trustees to see parker compromise her position on a trustee-drafted financial overhaul scheme...
...that labor markets operate. Still other experts argue, with much force, that no single statistic can or should be sanctified as the "full-employment" goal. One of them is Robert Aaron Gordon of the University of California, who headed a Government study that led to the last major overhaul of employment statistics...
...York's Governor Hugh Carey was put to a stern test?and he passed with generally high marks. With New York City on the brink and unable to govern itself, he reluctantly took charge and assembled a group of businessmen, financiers and public officials to overhaul the city's spending practices and devise a rescue plan. For all the unpopular actions he was forced to take?cutting spending, raising taxes?he won respect by making hard choices with an even temper. But his record was somewhat blemished at year's end when he abruptly fired Maurice Nadjari, the special prosecutor...