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Word: overhauled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Japanese ambassador's palatial home on the outskirts of Nairobi. Giscard's plane had been delayed, but he need not have hurried. The representatives of the world's five major financial powers dining there on tempura and steak would conclude no agreement on how to overhaul the international monetary system. Indeed, they would decide that the differences between France, the U.S., Britain, Germany and Japan were so great that there was no point in even trying to resolve them immediately. In effect, the much touted week-long meeting of the 125-country International Monetary Fund, which ended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MONEY: Glum Drums from Nairobi | 10/8/1973 | See Source »

Eliot House came from behind to win the 1500-meter A race yesterday, edging out a never-say-die Kirkland boat. Both Eliot and Kirkland came from way behind in that race to overhaul Quincy. Finishing behind Quincy were Winthrop and Mather...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eliot House Rowers Sweep Intramural Crew; Kirkland Nine Douses Hot Adams Squad 8-0 | 5/18/1973 | See Source »

...race Eliot led right from the start and kept up the pace throughout the entire 1000 meters. Adams House made a gallant bid to overhaul Eliot, coming from a last place start to finish in a disputed second with Mather. No one is exactly sure who did come in number two and even fourth place Kirkland contends that they would have finished second if the race hadn't been shortened...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eliot House Rowers Sweep Intramural Crew; Kirkland Nine Douses Hot Adams Squad 8-0 | 5/18/1973 | See Source »

...applaud Harris' Tax Action campaign and urge a radical overhaul of the Internal Revenue Code...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Take the Rich Off Welfare | 4/17/1973 | See Source »

...other cities and particularly to the economically vital minefields, where the average white worker earns $475 a month and the average black receives $30. "The cry to raise wages is not peculiar to Durban," said Drake Koka, general secretary of the Black Allied Workers Union, calling for a "total overhaul of the South African labor system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Usufu! | 2/19/1973 | See Source »

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