Word: overhauled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that year, the new HBS Dean Kim B. Clark made a committment to overhaul HBS's antiquated and cumbersome system in just three months...
...recounting tales of abuse by the Internal Revenue Service. It cuts to images from recent Senate hearings featuring a priest as one of the agency's innocent victims and IRS whistle blowers testifying from behind screens to hide their identity. Then the voice announces that while Republicans want to overhaul the IRS and scrap the tax code, President Clinton and his Treasury Secretary, Robert Rubin, are defending the status quo. "If you like the IRS," Luntz's fantasy ad continues, "vote Democratic. If you want to send a message, vote Republican...
This has only exacerbated the frivolity of political life in our nation's capital, the most ostentatious example being campaign finance proceedings. On Tuesday afternoon, the bill meant to overhaul our country's obviously inept campaign-financing system was left floundering in nowhere land because the majority of Senators chose not to end debate on the competing proposals, effectively preventing a decision on the legislation. Let me reiterate: the campaign-finance laws, despite their obvious disfunctionality, are not being changed...
What could Harvard do to give Chilton and her new graduate student more peace of mind? Some Faculty members say the tenure system could use an overhaul...
...clearly have psychological disorders that make them vulnerable to the stress and put them at risk for catastrophic outcomes," Brandt answers. "Then my job is raising issues, helping people reason it through, rather than being the gatekeeper." It is Brandt's experience that people rarely make a major life overhaul as a result of the test. It now seems clear that Jack will proceed to DNA analysis...