Word: overhauled
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Brown acknowledges his political history, but maintains that his association with the system will help him overhaul...
Perhaps history will rate Baker as the right man for the end of the cold war, a deft and prudent player of the good cards dealt him by the collapse of communism. But in a fragmented and challenging new world, American foreign policy needs a conceptual overhaul, the kind of coherent vision that it got in a simpler past from such men as Dean Acheson and George Kennan. A seat-of-the- pants approach to international relations, even one with its share of ! short-term successes, will not preserve American leadership...
...harsh truth, these economists say, is that the ruble cannot become stable without an overhaul of the economy far more thorough than what Yeltsin seems willing to risk. With 90% of Russia's production, distribution and retail outlets still in the inefficient hands of the state, they contend, supply cannot rise enough to slow inflation and restore long-term value to the ruble. "This amounts to trying to square the circle," says economist Nicholas Eberstadt, a Harvard research fellow. "The first step should be to privatize the factors of production." Adds Francis Scotland, managing director of the Investment Bank Credit...
...numbers produced by the pollsters. After four years under George Bush, a man with absolutely no beliefs so strong that they can't be reversed by a drop in the polls, it would be nice to have someone who isn't ideologically empty. I doubt Brown can singlehandedly overhaul the attitudes of Americans, but I see nothing wrong with giving him a chance...
...world's worst remaining tyrannies . . . Luke Perry and Jason Priestly are the lucky residents of Beverly Hills, 90210, the coolest ZIP code on earth. For fans of these sensitive heartthrobs, swooning is still in style . . . Ties were big sellers this year. For folks too strapped for a fashion overhaul, flashy neckwear was an easy way to spruce up a dull outfit . . . Air kissing, once mocked, is the way to greet people at social gatherings these days, now that the three-strain flu and everything else is going around. Direct eye contact, however, is still permitted...