Word: overhauled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Manchus who had ruled China for more than two centuries allied themselves with older members of the elite to suppress the younger scholars. Liang Ch'i-ch'ao and other activists who advocated rapid and thorough overhaul of China's government were in exile...
...nation also needs a thorough overhaul of its tax system. The aim should be to make a reformed federal income tax a major revenue raiser for states and cities as well as for the Federal Government, reducing the necessity for endless sharp increases in unfair and ineffective sales and property taxes...
Rogers had a genuine respect for people as well as a comical appreciation of their shortcomings. His faith in the capacity of people to run their own lives may seem naive and shortsighted in a complex America which today cries out for extensive coordinated overhaul. Rogers was skeptical about the potential of government to reform society. He didn't give answers. But he raised important questions about...
...STATE the matter another way, the standards of teaching and of government service in the Washington of the 1970's are really quite antithetical. Without a fundamental overhaul in the way officials debate issues and make decisions, while those in government are obliged to lie and distort to each other as frequently as their government lies and distorts to its public, scholars entering government will continue to make real compromises on principle if their work has not already departed from the norms of academic interchange. And as in the case of Huntington's discussion of urbanization, their published writings will...
...incident goaded Mrs. Jacobs into organizing a campaign to overhaul the city's entire system of dealing with unwanted or delinquent children. She ran headlong into an ineluctable bureaucracy and conditions grimly reminiscent of Oliver Twist. The chief probation officer told her: "If anybody cared about these kids, they wouldn't be here. The community uses Juvenile Hall for a dumping ground." The hall's resident doctor scorned her lack of credentials and said, "What you must realize is that by the time these children get to us, they've been through so much that there...