Word: overhauled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Senate hearing last week, government officials admitted that they had "underestimated the complexity" of the overhaul and pleaded for restoration of millions of dollars that Congress might cut from the Weather Service's budget. Congress members have not only balked at the soaring cost of the program, but have also raised pork-barrel concerns about plans to reduce the number of NWS offices around the country from 249 to 115 -- a reduction made possible by the greater power of the new technology. "It's a minor version of the military-base closings," says one NWS official...
...offer the world's strongest protection of intellectual property, reinforced by more than a dozen laws passed since 1980. The most significant by far was the 1982 overhaul of the patent and trademark courts. Previously divided into 12 separate districts, each with its own interpretation of the law, they made defending inventions and creative works almost impossible. Infringers could go "forum shopping" for the most favorable court district and operate with near impunity. The reorganization ended the legal hodgepodge by creating a single Court of Appeals that has tended to favor patent holders, who now win 80% of all infringement...
...NATO defense ministers, meeting last week in Brussels, approved a drastic overhaul of the alliance's military structure. They will deploy only about half as many troops as the 1.5 million now stationed in Central Europe; the U.S. specifically will be able to bring home at least half, and possibly as many as two-thirds, of the 320,000 people it keeps on guard on the Continent. Essentially, NATO is giving up its old "forward defense" strategy of massing forces in Germany and is reorganizing its central region into three main groups...
...wake of these disclosures, the Office of Management and Budget has said it will likely overhaul the regulations that determine proper overhead billings--known in contracting circles as "indirect costs...
...many political concessions it can squeeze out of Moscow -- on subjects ranging from help in settling the Cambodian civil war to final agreement on arms-control treaties -- before coming up with an aid package. Washington also is talking in effect of trying to help Gorbachev sell economic overhaul by expanding contacts with Soviet hard-liners and trying to persuade them not to see reform as a threat...