Word: overhauled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...project have had more success in gaining consideration of the public interest, threatening to block the project if planners did not provide concessions that would limit the plant's emissions. Officials in the state Division of Air and Hazardous Materials should be commended for their extended efforts to overhaul the plant's design and to exact an agreement from Harvard to restrict the allowed emission level of nitrogen dioxide, a pollutant that can irritate the respiratory system...
...overhaul of the plant's design, before the foundation was laid, has already resulted in a one-to-two year delay in construction, and attendant costs...
...culmination of Hirsch's arguments is an overall critique of Adam Smith's fervent belief that his hidden hand and enlightened self-interest could be an effective social organizing device. The principle thing people desire--status--is intrinsically scarce. The only way to circumvent these limitations is to overhaul social mores and values--to reject Adam Smith and create new motivational forces in society. Unfortunately, Hirsch, like too many other polemicists, is better at describing the nature of the problem than at posing viable ways to solve...
...Henry Ford Skinner isn't. Despite Skinner's innovative writing techniques, the first volume of "Particulars of My Life," his autobiography, could use an overhaul. I haven't read the recently-published second half, which follows Skinner from the start of his graduate work at Harvard up to the present...
...generating plants and battalions of maintenance crews that seem to be forever tearing up city streets. When Luce was brought in to run the company in 1967-two years after the first big blackout-Con Ed was being badgered by civic leaders and its own 254,000 shareholders to overhaul a stodgy, ingrown management that appeared to operate as if it were part of the city bureaucracy...