Word: overhauled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...afternoon and argue that the real lesson of the election is pretty much what it was in 1992: that voters want change in the way business is done in Washington. Clinton has told his top advisers that he will seek Republican votes on welfare reform, a bill designed to overhaul telecommunications regulations, a reauthorization of the Superfund toxic-waste-treatment program, as well as a clean-water measure. The agenda represents a move to the middle, which aides say is deliberate and unavoidable. Said a White House official: "No matter what the results are, it is absolutely essential...
...change my style--you won't see me give this a major overhaul," he promises. "I can only work with what...
...Kennedy stands for an ideology that has failed the country and that needs a massive overhaul. It is an ideology of big federal programs, a belief that the nation's problems can be solved once the government takes matters in hand. The result? Massive government debt and a strengthening of poverty's grip on our inner cities...
...state's economy had stayed sour, little could have stopped Kathleen Brown. Pete Wilson, the incumbent, forced to raise taxes in his first term, had reaped a 20% approval rating. Brown, the state treasurer, as well as the daughter and sister of previous Governors Pat and Jerry, demanded fiscal overhaul and gleaned a 23-point lead in the polls...
...Electronic Data Systems, the company Ross Perot founded and later sold to General Motors, last November bagged a glittering international prize: a $1.5 billion, 10-year contract to overhaul and then manage the computer network of Inland Revenue, the British government's main tax-collecting agency. Again it was a case of American firms' specializing in a particular high-tech field. Other countries' firms may provide tough competition in making computer hardware and software, but nobody matches the Americans at the fine art of tying computers together into networks that do everything from running automated factories to sending out medical...