Word: overhauled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Washington for ten years. Owner of a two-seater Air Coupe, he is a weekend flyer, estimates that in 30 years as pilot and passenger he has clocked 800,000 miles. Hannifin spent days with Tillinghast and his top aides in New York and examined the airline's overhaul and maintenance headquarters in Kansas City. He also visited TWA's training center, where he was checked out in the simulator of Boeing's new 707-331. "They cranked in some turbulence," recalls Hannifin. "The pilot told me to begin a 20° bank to the left...
...week's end Ky demonstrated another brand of toughness, which was welcomed by the U.S. Roaring inflation had threatened to rip the fabric of South Vietnamese society: food prices had risen 85% in 18 months, overall prices as much as 130%. Announcing a basic overhaul of the economy, Ky devalued the piastre by nearly half, loosened import restrictions to create more price-cutting competition, raised the salaries of military and government workers from 20% to 30%. They are the people who have been hardest hit by the inflation, and the people who matter most in the severe fighting...
...could erode the personal way . . . Matters are taken up" by the Administrative Board. Most undergraduates reclassified 1-A find out that even the government considers it a mistake. General Hershey comes to Harvard and urges colleges "to clean their own stables." Radcliffe begins a $16 million fund drive to overhaul housing...
...model, and concluded that in many ways it's an awful lemon. "I am troubled by the growth of violence," he told the National Association of Purchasing Agents in Detroit, "by the riots, vandalism, irresponsible demonstrations, the tendency toward rebellion for its own sake." The way to overhaul it all, said Ford, is "to join the war on poverty. The free-enterprise system will not gain the acceptance it needs until all men share in the abundance that system provides." One night after Henry spoke, he shared some of his own abundance with an unworthy citizen-the thief...
...spite of widespread national concern about the inequity and inefficiency of the draft, an effective overhaul of the Selective Service Act will almost certainly not occur until the Act comes up for renewal in 1968. But there is one simple change which Congress could and should make now. Two year service in the domestic or foreign peace corps should count as a complete and legitimate alternative to military service...