Word: overhauled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Radical Overhaul. In their effort to put housing on a sounder long-term footing, builders and materials suppliers are concentrating on ways to reduce housing's financial dependence on S & Ls, mutual savings and commercial banks and life-insurance companies. U.S. Plywood, for example, is trying to enlist other big firms in a plan to form a corporation to provide the top 15% of 90% -mortgageloans, thus enabling conventional lenders to stretch their funds further. Last week N.A.H.B. urged the Government to expand the Federal National Mortgage Association, now confined by law to the purchase...
...parties can avoid stalemate, they may be able to tackle successfully some of the big problems facing Germany. Until now, no German government has ever had the two-thirds majority required by the constitution to overhaul the country's dilapidated political system. The grand coalition, of course, does. It will probably, for example, change West Germany's election system from proportional representation to direct balloting in order to stop the free-riding splinter parties from proliferating and to give the big parties a better chance to obtain clear majorities. The coalition will also have the opportunity to straighten...
Sato's first move was a complete Cabinet overhaul aimed at ending corruption. "Make sure you separate your public and private life," Sato warned each appointee. Among the new faces: State Minister Kiichi Miyazawa, 47, an economist who will double as director of the economic planning agency; Finance Minister Mikio Mizuta, 61, a proponent of greater capital investment in industry; Foreign Minister Takeo Miki, 59, an advocate of increased Japanese aid and development projects in the rest of Asia...
Robert H. Ebert, dean of the Medical School predicted last night that his faculty will eventually approve a major overhaul of the school's curriculum...
Harsh critics of the 23-page report -- there is a significant number -- are wary of just about everything in it. The report sketches a whole new way for the faculty to operate, and professors uneasy about a complete curriculum overhaul call its objectives unrealistic and its plan of action unworkable. Some seem rather offended because the report makes such sweeping recommendations which many fellow faculty members seem to favor...