Word: overhauled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Street in 30 years. His judicious handling of the inquiry has made the SEC Washington's most respected regulatory agency-a reputation that does not hurt in Gary's current effort to shepherd through Congress the SEC's 3,000-page report calling for a thorough overhaul of the nation's securities markets. Publicity-shunning Gary's modest manner belies an inner toughness. A Marine major with the OSS in Yugoslavia during World War II, Gary once produced only a few wilted flowers for decorations at a dinner that his commanding officer was giving...
Pained Status Seekers. Faced with the growing costs of defense and domestic development, Chancellor Erhard would like to overhaul the entire program with a new Sozialpaket (social package). With more than 800,000 jobs going begging, unemployment insurance is largely an anachronism; last year, employers were actually exempted from their mandatory contributions. In 1961, six weeks a year of sick leave at full pay became compulsory, and since then industrial absenteeism has skyrocketed; the healthiest workers are apt to claim their six weeks as a sort of extra vacation...
...said Elaine Stritch, "you wouldn't believe it. This play has been the most horrible experience of my life." The play was The Time of the Barracudas, which abruptly closed its pre-Broadway run in Los Angeles and was packed away in salt hay for extensive overhaul. The co-star was Laurence Harvey...
Hewlett had defeated Machooka earlier this season, but yesterday it was a different Machooka. The exchange student from Kenya flashed the form which had brought him the IC4A diadem in 1961, although it was not enough to overhaul Zwolak...
...after-school study centers, and a new "sequential" system is aimed at forcing pupils to master specific reading steps before drifting upward. Gross has submitted a record one-year building budget of $223.8 million that calls for 37 new schools by 1965. And by 1970, he hopes to overhaul the entire school plant to the tune of $1.17 billion...