Word: overhauled
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Oran said that he has spoken with many other teaching fellows concerned with salaries and sectioning. "Not all I talked to agreed to my approach, but no one disagreed with the need for a complete overhaul of the graduate financial system," he said...
...addition to the council issue, the union has some concerns about the merit raise system, leaders say. HUCTW wants to either overhaul the merit system or just do away with it entirely. Union leaders assert that merit rewards, which can be as high as 3 percent of salary, are being unevenly distributed throughout the different parts of the University. Workers are receiving awards not based on an objective, standard review, but rather on subjective grounds...
...stung by the savings and loan debacle, blasted the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Treasury and the Federal Reserve for failing to detect Salomon's fraudulent bids fast enough. Congressional leaders accused regulators of being too cozy with Wall Street firms and warned that Congress would move quickly to overhaul the $2.2 trillion government-securities market to prevent similar abuses in the future...
...issue even closer to most doctor's hearts -- and pocketbooks -- is the Medicare fee schedule proposed in late May. The Administration was directed by Congress to overhaul the fees physicians are paid to treat the 34 million elderly and disabled patients eligible for Medicare. The idea was to shift some payments from high-paid specialists to lower-paid general practitioners. But the new Administration rules went even further, cutting future Medicare payments by $3 billion and lowering reimbursements to some groups -- notably internists -- that Congress had intended to help. To make matters worse, the government issued new rules last week...
...Duke is also an ambitious politician who is a candidate for Governor of Louisiana, a state with a large black vote. At the rally at a downtown convention center he delivered a typically bombastic Save Our Nation spiel, including his usual appeal to overhaul welfare and do away with quotas and set-aside programs for minority businessmen. The rally drew a meager audience of 30 people and was pitiful as a fund raiser. Duke, however, profited handsomely: he got a chance to soften his racist image without saying anything...