Word: overhauled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mediation service replaces the Office of Race Relations, a casualty of the Epps overhaul in September...
Rudy came to TIME in 1977, called on by art director Walter Bernard to help with the magazine's most comprehensive redesign ever. This major overhaul nettled some readers -- it is a rule in publishing that all such changes prove controversial -- but the new look quickly became popular and extensively imitated. Succeeding Walter in 1980, Rudy deftly adapted to new technology that allowed the magazine routinely -- and in spite of breaking news and tight printing schedules -- to use color on every page. Then came the microchip age, and Rudy moved his staff from the traditional design tools -- paper, pencils...
...fulfill its goals, the agency itself needs an overhaul...
...machinery into tight spaces, disconnect and connect fragile electronic equipment, and make sure no loose screws damaged the delicate telescope -- all while wearing puffy pressure suits and bulky gloves in a vacuum at zero gravity and -300 degrees F. In theory, NASA said, they could complete this orbital overhaul in five six-hour spacewalks; in practice, there would almost certainly be at least a few major flubs. If the astronauts accomplished much more than half of what they had set out to do, insisted the fretful space agency, then the mission should be counted a success...
Japanese Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa won a powerful victory when the lower house of Japan's parliament passed his four-bill reform package. The country's notoriously corrupt political system will undergo a major overhaul if the bills are passed by the parliament's upper house, as expected. Among the changes are a switch to single-member constituencies and a ban on corporate campaign donations to individual politicians...