Word: overhauled
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Roosevelt is a moderate Democrat by most standards, agreeing with Weld in supporting of the death penalty and in calling for an overhaul of the welfare system...
These assaults on the World Bank, which have surfaced in several academic books and in speeches by congressional leaders, have pushed president Lewis Preston, a former chairman of the J.P. Morgan banking company, to initiate what may become historic changes at the bank. In 1992 he launched an overhaul of the $104 billion loan portfolio and a year later hired New York public relations whiz Herb Schmertz to revamp the institution's image. Schmertz turned in a confidential report several months ago that acknowledged some of the most serious accusations against the bank and said there exists "a significant...
...President was faltering, a bus tour into America's heartland helped lift him into a lead he never relinquished. Last Friday, with the success of her husband's presidency at stake, Hillary Rodham Clinton kicked off another bus tour, this one designed to rescue the Administration's campaign to overhaul the U.S. health-care system. Before a sweltering crowd packed into a plaza in downtown Portland, Oregon, the First Lady called on Congress to "do the right thing" by voting for a bill that satisfies the White House's primary goal: guaranteed health insurance for everyone. "The message is simple...
...Whedon found himself in with a script called, appropriately, Speed. It had, Whedon admits, "a great premise: a bomb on a bus, and if it goes under 50 miles an hour, it blows up." What it needed, he says, was "a gussying up of the plot and a total overhaul of characters and motivation." In two weeks Whedon turned the original bad guy (Jeff Daniels) into the buddy of hero Keanu Reeves. He wrote new characters to ride on the demon bus. He stayed on call throughout shooting and wrote dialogue for post-production looping. He got no screen credit...
Although the idea for the service was conceived in the fall during Epps' overhaul of the race relations bureaucracy, actual mediation has yet to begin. First, the mediators must decide how to approach the campus...