Word: overhauled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...selecting-out process. Officers also noted that under his aegis men with high diplomatic potential were often bypassed for plush jobs in favor of men little experienced in diplomacy from his department. Congress is also taking more direct measures. There are two bills pending before Congress that would overhaul and codify the grievance system...
Like most of the Council candidates, Owens isn't overly specific when he outlines his program for Cambridge: more housing, increased neighborhood participation in city government, an overhaul of the rent control system, police decentralization, budget trimmings through more efficient financial management...
...much stronger objection is that an official price increase would tend to give gold a continued undeserved prominence in world finance. Most economists-and the Nixon Administration-believe that the role of gold should be reduced, or even eliminated, in any long-range overhaul of the international monetary system. Still, there are ways of managing a gold price boost so that it would be what Economist Arthur Okun calls "severance pay" for cutting the monetary tie to gold. The U.S. could couple an increase with a formal announcement that the Treasury would no longer buy or sell any gold; that...
...robbery "scarcely Warranted an eleven-year sentence" and that court "reform has proved to be a regression in many cases," you seem to be clearly aware of the inequities facing black political transgressors. Unfortunately, you are willing to prolong these inequities rather than risk a rapid overhaul of their source -America's outdated political and economic systems...
...richest industrialized nations, deteriorated into a testy confrontation that left the officials unable even to agree on what they will talk about when they convene again in Washington on Saturday. The impasse deepened the danger that President Nixon's monetary initiatives will produce not the much needed overhaul of the world financial system that he aimed at, but a trade war that will pit the U.S. against much of the rest of the world...