Word: overhauled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Rather than overhaul the plant, Seaboard responded in the classic manner of corporate-welfare artists: it began quietly looking around for another town, another state. Alarmed, Albert Lea and Minnesota came up with an additional $12.5 million in incentives to keep the plant. But Seaboard had found a bigger patsy--Guymon (pop. 7,700), in Texas County, Okla. Guymon, the county and the state put together an economic incentive package worth $21 million to entice Seaboard to the Oklahoma Panhandle, a section of the country where hogs and cattle far outnumber people...
...reactor began operating in 1958. It was shut down for repairs in 1974, but the overhaul was completed two years later. The reactor has been running 24 hours a day ever since, according to the website...
...purely to prevent the Pentagon worker from being "destroyed," and that the rumors of a book deal are just that. "If there had been a book," she said, "you'd very likely be standing there with it in your hands." Clearly, Goldberg is in need of an image overhaul; little details such as her habit of calling followers "my pretties" and her raucous celebration with son Jonah on the night the Lewinsky story broke have made her one of the least popular public figures in this whole affair. Will taking the fall for Linda help? Unlikely, since it's Tripp...
...Recently we've undergone a massive overhaul," she said. "But [former editors-in-chief Hal M. Jones '99 and Gil Dibner '99] have locked everything into place, so Sujit and I can move forward...
With her baseline, and the other's baseness, this was a parody to lift any student's heart, delightful both in its irreverence to the canon and to the disregard it shows for the seriousness with which that canon is treated around these parts. In their overhaul of the Bard, the RSC may have come closer to the original Shakespearean experience than we usually get. On the outside chance that The Bard is turning in his grave, though, no one seems to feel too badly since he never seemed the type to lie flat and complacent in the first place...