Word: overhauled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...licensing for ex-offenders needs a "thorough overhaul." A dangerous driver is obviously unfit for a driver's license; a stickup artist should never get a pistol permit. But why require "good character" for a barber's license? A better rule: "Criminal convictions should be considered only to the extent actually relevant to fitness to participate in activities posing particular dangers to society...
Monro's capacity to handle the routine and his competence to make difficult innovations were combined no more successfully than when he began to overhaul Harvard's system of scholarships and financial aid. In 1948, he became assistant to Provost Paul H. Buck and two years later moved up to the top post in the Financial Aid Office, a job he held until he became dean. "As the G.I. bill ran out and the World War II veterans got through," explains one former colleague, "it was clear that Harvard was going to have to give more thought to the ways...
...trucks, which represents a 360% increase over 1960, the year the industry began mass production in earnest. Though the total is about three-fourths of Germany's sales, the ten major Japanese builders plan a 32% increase this year to 3,024,000 units, and they look to overhaul Germany in a year...
...proposal was part of a five point program in which Kennedy called for a complete overhaul of the present draft system...
Political observers have recently maintained that the Democratic party, which has not won an important state office in either of the last two elections, needs a major overhaul of both policies and candidates if it is to recapture the State House...