Word: overhauled
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...their new digs and holding twice-daily meetings to plan their new show. Much of the activity has been on the architectural front. In 12 furious weeks, the old Ed Sullivan Theater -- where Elvis and the Beatles were once presented by the Great Stone Face -- was given a complete overhaul. In his new setup Letterman will have a more cavernous auditorium, a bigger audience (about 400 seats, nearly double the capacity of his old NBC studio) and a whole new neighborhood for his snoopy cameras to roam around in. "You can leave the stage, go down three or four steps...
Though the overhaul was not planned in order to procure a permanent license, the restaurant plans to use it to bring in several area and student bands in the fl and winter, Lee said...
...soaks up smallish sums of tax money, almost no one but right-wing ideologues has ventured full-bore critiques. A 25th-anniversary report, put out last week by a task force of the usual Establishment suspects (Vartan Gregorian, Joe Califano, Tim Wirth and so on), provoked intriguing newspaper headlines (OVERHAUL PROPOSED, teased the Washington Post), but its reformist manifesto -- the 351 local PBS stations should get less federal money, the central programming apparatus should get more -- turned out to be tepid and intramural, a birthday wish list posing as tough-minded scrutiny...
...Woolsey is proposing an overhaul, a consolidation of the satellite programs that would combine several kinds of instruments on one platform. The innovation would save money in the long run but cost a lot in the short run. To pay for it, Woolsey has been lobbying congressional committees for a $900 million increase in the national intelligence budget of about $28 billion. Senator DeConcini says Woolsey is making a "tremendous push" for a budget increase this year, "but that's hard to do without the Soviet threat." The argument that intelligence agencies now need more money...
...Yard, however, remained relatively untouched for quite a while. Canaday, finished in 1974, was the last dorm built. Though the dorms were not exactly strangers to hammers and nails, a quarter of a century went by without a thorough overhaul of the dorms...