Word: overhauled
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However, reform has been dealt a more serious setback by educators. The Chicago Principals' Association has attacked SRA's educational overhaul in court, in the LSCs and in the schools themselves. Fortunately, their legal challenge of the anti-tenure portions of the act was denied, but the association continues to oppose any substantive reform. It is appealing the ruling. And the Chicago Teachers' Union has supported the principals' challenge...
ONLY A COMPLETE OVERHAUL of the NCAA would prevent the systematic exploitation of college athletes. That will happen when the influence of TV cash coffers is no longer preeminent. That will happen when deep-seated attitudes about the role of college athletes make a 180-degree turn. That will happen, as Bertolt Brecht once wrote, on "St. Nevercome...
...That depends on how quickly we can overhaul our entire financial system and bring some law-and-order to what has been a law of the jungle. The nation is repeating the mistakes of 1900 to 1929, when we stumbled through a crisis by never addressing the root cause: the breakdown of the regulatory systems. We must reform the apparatus, which is a mishmash of overlapping agencies...
...partner, Brant Morse, invested in Apex," says a senior staff member of the committee. Wood River's failure is just one in a long list of Small Business Investment Corporation insolvencies totaling $500 million in the past five years, a record that has prompted the agency to overhaul the rules for such guarantees...
Already awash in bad loans, some of the largest and proudest U.S. lenders may have to merge to survive. The shaky health of the industry is hastening Washington's campaign to overhaul laws that have governed the financial system for more than half a century. Neil Bush is entangled in a new congressional investigation following the failure of a government-backed investment firm that bankrolled his oil-exploration company. Andrew Tobias on the practical benefits of volunteer work...