Word: overhauled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...able wartime director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development, urged a revamping of the Armed Forces Unification Act "so that we can have in this country unified central military planning that transcends the interest of any particular service." Lieut. General James Doolittle warned that the U.S. must overhaul its educational system. "Certainly," said he, "the scientist and the educator must be given more prestige and more pay." Beyond that, said Doolittle, the Defense Secretary needs the services of a new type of general staff, i.e., "an advisory military staff to assist him in resolving the honest differences...
This committee would include the Senior Tutors and the Chairmen of the several Boards of Tutors in addition to an overall committee, the report, which considers tutorial "the best part of a Harvard education," calls for "Tutorial for all" and a general overhaul of the upper-class advising program...
...shortstop would end at 35 at best; so he went to Beth as a 15?-an-hour electric-crane operator, moved from one muscle-straining job to another. In 1906, Grace's drive struck the fancy of Beth's Boss Charles M. Schwab, who picked him to overhaul the company's important, but mismanaged, ore properties in Cuba. Grace did so well that he became the star of Bethlehem. By 1916, ten years after he traded overalls for a white collar, he was president...
...Program. One man with a program is President Pedro Aramburu, who pushed through the assembly plan in hopes that the group will be elected in orderly fashion July 28 and get to work Sept. 1 on an overhaul of the constitution. The Aramburu regime wants 1) a one-term limit for Presidents, 2) curbs on the President's power to legislate by decree when the Congress is adjourned, 3) repeal of the President's right to replace provincial governors at will, and 4) a stronger civil service system. Such a document, says he, would be "a death certificate...
...distributors against damages, could leave the distributors free to distribute foreign publications without the "screening" threatened by Smith's. It was not the ideal way to avoid what many Britons were quick to call "censorship." 'There is need, said the New Statesman and Nation, for "a thorough overhaul of the law governing contempt of court, with its arbitrary powers . . . and its medieval refusal of all right of appeal." But, as the Manchester Guardian pointed out, "there is no clear way out of the thicket"'of libel and contempt strictures. Britain's libel laws are an uncodified...