Word: overhauled
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Without a complete overhaul of the country's political, financial and education systems, dreams of prosperity could well become nightmares for Japan's future generations. The country's remarkable post-war growth was built around an industrial policy in which politicians, bureaucrats and corporate chieftains orchestrated every regulation, first in order to catch up with the West and later to keep themselves entrenched. But politics and the bureaucracy never got to evolve. When success brought on the frenzied speculating of the late 1980s, the ruling establishment covered one another's bets. In 1992 the bubble burst, the Nikkei stock index...
...need to create a government that can bring about change," says Minister of Health Naoto Kan, the highly popular co-leader of the new Democratic Party, which is promoting its version of a "kinder, gentler" Japan. Depending on the political party, plans for administrative reform run from a polite overhaul of the Ministry of Finance--which bears most of the blame for the financial crisis--to moving the bulk of government out of Tokyo...
...University Health Services (UHS) Pharmacy underwent a massive overhaul as part of Harvard's response to an investigation in which it was fined $775,000 last week by the federal government for improper drug distribution and lax security...
Johnson's position was consolidated into the position of assistant dean of public service when the College decided to overhaul public service after a 1994 report on the structure of the College...
...chair of the House and Neighborhood Development (HAND) Program, I am responding to the article "Quietly, HAND Undertakes Its Own Overhaul" (news story, Oct. 3). The article resembled an editorial rather than a news report in its mistreatment of the "space issue." The reporters theorized that "HAND's unwillingness to confront the administration, however, may have cost the group a home on campus...