Word: overhauled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tall Talking. The measures will get Britain temporarily over its balance-of-payments hump. But after all the tall Tory talking, Britons of both parties had expected and hoped for considerably more; everyone, it seemed, had been braced for dramatic, tough new measures to overhaul the flagging economy. "Is there anything new?" asked the Tory Daily Telegraph. "Where are the stern cures for fundamental weaknesses of the economy we were led to expect? Where is the dynamic doctrine, the fresh stimulus that is to put new drive into the exporter...
...Antitrust and Monopoly Subcommittee last week when Chairman Estes Kefauver adjourned its hearings for a summer recess. They were just what the Senator wanted to back up his contention that the laws relating to safety, testing, efficacy, pricing and promotion of drugs are in need of a drastic overhaul...
...will have plenty of chance to air his ideas. The Administration denies that Taylor will undermine the authority of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, but Taylor himself has little use for the J.C.S. Wrote he: "The Joint Chiefs of Staff system has proved ineffective and needs a fundamental overhaul . . . If war comes, the committee system for the conduct of modern operations would break down within the first few hours or days." And Taylor has argued for civilian military control to "be exercised at the top only after hearing a clear, unimpeded voice of responsible military counsel." Max Taylor clearly intends...
...perspective by moving the east front wall 32½ ft. forward. To end the crumbling, he wanted a new façade of longlasting marble, and he rubbed his hands at the thought of additional space for congressional offices, a new restaurant, a tourist-free corridor. Cost for the overhaul: $17 million...
...Quadros is keenly aware, his eco nomic austerity program is likely to jeop ardize his political popularity. But the reforms he promises - antitrust legislation, land reform, a general tax overhaul -should stand Brazil in good stead abroad as well as at home. Last week, as President Kennedy declared such reforms to be one of the conditions of U.S. aid to Latin American nations, Quadros sent special envoys to both the U.S. and Europe to arrange stretch-outs of old debts - and to investigate the chances for new loans...