Word: overhauled
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Boylston Hall is the next academic building in line for an overhaul. Harvard Dining Services is in the midst of a long-term project to renovate the house dining halls. And there has even been talk of building a new undergraduate house...
WASHINGTON: Momentum is building for an IRS overhaul that could create the ultimate opportunity for revenge by corporate big-wigs who have faced audits. Former Treasury secretaries Nicholas Brady and James Baker surprised the nation's bean counters Monday by endorsing the creation of a private-sector review board to keep tabs on IRS efficiency, or the lack of it, taking the oversight responsibility away from the Treasury Department. The current Treasury secretary, Robert Rubin, is staunchly opposed because he feels the proposal would create conflicts of interest for taxpayers on the board. He is expected to put those sentiments...
Jonathan is one of 264,000 low-income, disabled children nationwide whose Supplemental Security Income benefits, averaging $424 a month, are being reviewed for possible termination. The reviews are being conducted under new rules, adopted in last year's overhaul of the welfare system, that significantly tighten the program's definition of disability. So far, 42% of children whose cases have been reviewed under the new rules nationally have been found ineligible; some started losing benefits last week. Jonathan's review ended with a request for him to submit further evidence of his disability--a sign, his mother fears, that...
Technology is helping. Bell says his trucks need an overhaul only every 1 million miles instead of 300,000. They need an oil change every 30,000 miles instead of 10,000. In 1979 many trucks got 4 m.p.g.; now they average 7. Computers allow more timely, efficient service...
...spring, the council created an extra-council committee of students to give the council major structural overhaul. However, the committee's high hopes for dramatic change fell flat when most of the extensive reforms failed to pass by the end of the year...