Word: overhauled
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These are Congress' answers to a system that needs an overhaul. But what are Congress' answers to a child who needs diapers its mothers cannot provide? Do without. What are Congress' answers to a child who cannot afford the supplies needed for an already-subpar education? Stop complaining. What are Congress' answers to a person who cannot find work despite repeated and persistent attempts and is now without food? Starve...
WASHINGTON DC: Ignoring the passionate concerns of his fellow Democrats, President Clinton has announced he will sign the GOP's sweeping welfare overhaul bill, scheduled to clear the Senate tomorrow. At a press conference, Clinton tried to assuage his party's concerns saying the bill would give welfare families the opportunity to "succeed at home and at work." Conceding that the bill was "far from perfect," Clinton said he would try to change several provisions that he felt were too harsh, such as a provision to prohibit some legal immigrants from receiving welfare benefits. Nevertheless, he maintained that the bill...
...locked in a heated campaign for state representative, Wolf said she has been forced to overhaul her campaign strategies as a result of the different voting system employed in state elections...
...last question: Who has learned that size doesn't count as much as insouciance? Why, Andrew Lloyd Webber. His By Jeeves, a radical overhaul of his 1975 flop show, is a delight in miniature. Based on P.G. Wodehouse's tales of the supreme upper-class twit Bertie Wooster and his man Jeeves, a Zen master of irony, By Jeeves has a blitheness that makes the audience feel as if it's on a holiday from the huffery and puffery of the Boublil-Schonberg musicals (and of Sir Andrew's overblown Sunset Blvd...
...Republicans under election-year pressure to show constituents progress towards passage of sweeping changes in welfare reform law, Republican leaders dropped their insistence that any reform bill include politically unpalatable changes in Medicaid. The White House welcomed the news Friday and said that the prospects for passing a welfare overhaul bill this year have brightened considerably. Congress hopes to have a welfare reform bill on the President's desk before the August recess. Clinton has already vetoed two welfare reform bills that included turning Medicaid into block grants controlled by the states. "President Clinton will undoubtedly face...