Word: overhauled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...commission hearing two weeks ago, however, the Norfolk supporters got a shock. Though Norfolk is the only one of the three yards on the list that can overhaul aircraft carriers, commission members pointed out that a private firm, the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., just down the road from Norfolk, would be willing and able to pick up that business. In fact, Newport News is short of work and earlier this month laid off 1,000 workers...
...persuade friends and foes to go along. In the end, to head off nuclear arms races in various regions of the world the U.S. might have to offer security guarantees to worried governments and threaten to intervene, if necessary, to keep the peace. But that would require an overhaul of its alliance system and a major expansion of its overseas commitments...
...desperate scramble to reposition himself as a man of the middle rather than the tax-and-spend liberal that a majority of Americans now suspect him to be. While Clinton might have felt compelled to dump Guinier under any circumstances, the move, coming at a time of presidential image overhaul, looked like some kind of Faustian political bargain. Clinton not only dumped an old friend but in doing so also dismissed the views of his folk-hero Attorney General, Janet Reno, and in the same stroke managed to let minority groups believe their interests were secondary to other concerns...
...College has its own bureaucracy which has been promised a massive overhaul. Just as last summer's shake-up which placed Epps in charge, the administration may move quietly in the next few months to change the structure of the College's race relations bureaucracy...
...episode follows Epps' comments about Counter in January in which he placed part of the blame for the College's race relations problems with the Foundation. It may also be the escalation of an internal battle, as rumors mount that a massive overhaul of the College's race relations bureaucracy may claim the Foundation in its current form...