Word: overhauled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...University, which in recent years has looked outside the U.S.'s borders purchasing Ecuador's foreign debt and attracting more international students, is now busy at work developing a relatively new skill: working with foreign governments to overhaul their judicial systems...
...surprise is only that the description has remained apt for so long. While there have been countless improvements in boating equipment, the sailboat, especially the basic 30- to 40-ft. cruising craft, has not changed much in the past 20 years. Nor has it had the full- scale design overhaul that might be expected for a relatively expensive sport, where as many as eight people work simultaneously at complicated tasks...
...save us from spiraling costs, apalling waste and needless suffering, America needs a complete overhaul of its unequal and ineffective health care system...
...Travel Related Services division, which includes card operations. Golub, known for his expertise on the ski slopes and in the kitchen, had been boss of one of Amex's few star performers, IDS Financial Services. To cut losses in the credit-card business, Golub plans a top-to- bottom overhaul at a cost of $110 million, which will include laying off 1,700 workers. Among other goals, Golub plans to boost the growth of Amex cards in force. Among the possible incentives: waiving the $55 annual renewal fee for its green-card holders...
...these disparities have become too glaring and shameful to ignore, a reform movement has grown that seeks to play Robin Hood by taking funds from richer districts to help pay for schools in poorer ones. Since the 1970s, 10 states have decided -- or been forced by courts -- to overhaul their methods of funding some of their school districts. In the process, tempers are flaring in a manner reminiscent of the disagreements that once raged over school busing. "It is a tug-of-war between equity and excellence," says Tony Rollins, executive director of the Colorado Education Association, a state teachers...