Word: overhauled
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Still, I've yet to see any College or house official recognize the prevalent opinion among undergraduates--that drastic action and a complete overhaul is necessary to revive the tutor system...
...moderate Republican, the joke was that Perot was too busy to do it himself, so he hired his attorney to stand in for him. (Perot ultimately paid off Luce's $950,000 campaign debt.) Luce was an intellectual architect for Perot's crusades to fight drugs and overhaul Texas schools, and many of his ideas -- including school choice and early-childhood intervention -- are likely to figure in a Perot platform. But it is his quieting influence on Perot that will help steer the sometimes impetuous candidate through the election...
Some of Gorbachev's assessments betray wishful thinking about what might have been. He blames the August coup attempt for making any efforts to overhaul the Communist Party and introduce a more measured program of market reforms "impossible." The putsch certainly accelerated the breakup of the Soviet state, but it is debatable whether Gorbachev would have achieved either aim had the hard-liners not made their move. By the summer of 1991, Kremlin power was already ebbing away to republican leaders like Russia's Boris Yeltsin; the party was clearly headed for a schism. It is also doubtful, as Gorbachev...
...TILE VILLA OVERLOOKING Lake Geneva, long-suffering diplomats shuttle in and out of meetings, their faces betraying anxiety that the most ambitious overhaul of international-trade rules since World War II is floundering. In Brussels, European Community officials denounce the hard-nosed obstinacy of their American counterparts. In Washington, George Bush struggles to convey optimism, dropping vague references to "new ideas" that might break the logjam between Washington and the E.C. In Tokyo, ministers try quietly to bridge the gap between Europe and the U.S., lest there be any interruption of the trade machine upon which Japan's now imperiled...
...Rand Araskog, whose $7 million in 1990 compensation touched off a maelstrom, agreed to a dramatic overhaul of his pay package. The company replaced outright stock grants with options based on the performance of the company's stock, and Araskog agreed to reduce the size of his annual bonus. Says Hanson: "Shareholders are waking up to the fact that they're owners and not just investors...