Word: overhauled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Whether Sears would have many more Christmases was in doubt a couple of years ago. Yet just four years after the hodgepodge of retailing, finance, insurance and real estate that was Sears lost $3.9 billion, the company is more than midway through a $4 billion, five-year overhaul and plans to double its size by adding big and small stores alike. Sears is also trying to create a $10 billion service business that will include appliance repairs and home improvements like roofing...
Bane left the Clinton administration on Sept. 28 in response to President Clinton's signing of a controversial welfare overhaul ending the guarantee of cash assistance to the nation's poorest children...
...committee will consider two options for the core's overhaul. It will either form an eight-course core that would leave room for two electives in the first year, or it will create a "tracked" core that would allow students to specialize in a methodological track their second semester...
Faced with the rising anxiety over air bags, which are currently found in 50 million vehicles on U.S. roads, federal safety officials last week pulled in the rules that regulate the devices for a thorough overhaul. "Air bags are working well," says Dr. Ricardo Martinez, who heads the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, "but need to be improved to enhance the safety of children and small-stature adults." Toward that end, the agency rolled out a five-part proposal for air bags that, if adopted after public hearings, would cover every passenger car and truck sold...
...Russian government must keep making tough choices and sticking with them. One example is a peaceful end to the brutal war in Chechnya. Another is an urgently needed overhaul of tax collection. The complexity and inefficiency of the current system have scared off foreign and domestic investment, and Moscow's failure to take in adequate revenues has jeopardized its eligibility for loans from the International Monetary Fund. At a more fundamental level, rampant criminality threatens to undermine the Russian people's confidence in reform and in democracy itself, and could serve as a pretext for the reimposition of stultifying state...