Word: overhauled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rosovsky's new statement of purposes and aims is really going to have an enormous impact, it'll really have to be revolutionary and not more of this jive curriculum reform. The prexy and the dean have been pretty close-mouthed about what they have in mind for the overhaul of the system, but if you just contemplate the depths of understanding of economics Bok displayed in his talk to the Republicans, it's hard not to conclude that he's been really thinking things out lately...
...communism, of creeping socialism, of homosexuals, or of foreigners, as they are of the abuse of organs of government such as the FBI and the CIA, and of general ineptitude in high places. The November elections may show that this trend has reached New Hampshire, resulting in the overhaul of one of the most solidly entrenched conservative power structures in the nation...
West Germany officially loosened its chastity belt a notch with the ratification by the Bundesrat of a new German sex law. Part of a general overhaul of the country's archaic 19th century penal code, the sweeping reforms were finally hammered out after three years of angry debate in the West German Parliament. Said a spokesman for Chancellor Willy Brandt's Social Democratic Party: "All the law does is catch up with the times and protect the freedom of the individual to sexual determination...
During the past two years, the liberal majority on the council has been unable to work together to carry out its campaign pledges, but the liberal school committee, led by Cheatham, has begun a major overhaul of the public schools...
...avoid repeating it, Israel will probably overhaul much of its intelligence apparatus in the hope of getting a more accurate evaluation of the Arabs' intentions in the future. As an immediate measure, Major General Aharon Yariv, who headed Israeli intelligence when it masterminded the 1967 strikes against Egypt's airfields, has been appointed a special adviser to Israel's Chief of Staff David Elazar. The tough, cunning Yariv angrily remarked that while Israel held back "in order to demonstrate its desire for peace, we did not expect to be penalized...