Word: overhauled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Beyond London. The British had been pressing for a year to overhaul the Bermuda Agreement. They felt that the three U.S. carriers covered by it-Pan American, TWA and National-were getting too much of the North Atlantic business. In 1976 U.S. carriers earned revenues of about $375 million on U.S.-to-Britain runs, while the state-owned British Airways got only $274 million. British airline officials also complained that the U.S. lines got a far better deal in carrying passengers from America beyond London to other European capitals and the Far East: $170 million from those routes for American...
...support the Fox plan if the University would fund major improvements at the Quad. Student support of the plan, however, proved to be a little more expensive, when 40 Quad seniors pledged last month to withhold their gifts to Harvard until the University makes a genuine attempt to overhaul Quad living conditions...
...Crimson's number four man, Dave Paxton, shot a lackluster 86 but will almost certainly improve on that today. Another major ingredient if the Crimson is to overhaul Providence is freshman Jim Dales, who has been the team's hottest player of late. Dales shot an 81 yesterday but is also expected to hone...
...Conservation department performs two types of restoration: structural and aesthetic. Structural restoration involves a thorough overhaul of a piece of artwork in a seriously decayed state, while aesthetic restoration generally involves only minor facelifts to improve the appearance and beauty of the object...
...interested motive for agreeing: if GEICO had gone bust, they would have been assessed to help pay claims against its policyholders). That provided time, and cash, for GEICO's new chairman, John J. Byrne, 45, who had been hired from Travelers Insurance Corp. in May, to begin an overhaul...