Word: overhauled
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Best Reason to Overhaul the Stereo System -- Again The long-awaited digital audio tape recorder has finally arrived in U.S. stores. Will DAT -- which makes crisp, noise-free tapes -- replace CDs? Will erasable CDs do the same to DAT? Whatever happens, audio stores will always tell people their stereos are just not good enough...
Gucci's image make-over comes as part of an overhaul of the entire Gucci organization. The revival is spearheaded by Maurizio Gucci, 42, the founder's grandson, who last year assumed control of Guccio Gucci S.p.A. With the support of Investcorp, a Bahrain-based investment firm that owns half the business, Gucci pared the product line from 22,000 to 7,000 items, and he will probably trim the inventory still further. Among the first products to be eliminated: the cheap, unlined canvas pocketbooks with the double-G logo that were easily copied, and can still be picked...
Such visions, however, depend both on political stability and a complete overhaul of the Soviet system. With that in mind, Bush proposed that the Soviet Union be granted "special association" status in the IMF and the World Bank. Those organizations would help integrate the U.S.S.R. into the world economy by dispatching experts on the banking system, stock markets, currency exchange, transportation and energy. Eventually the Soviets could be eligible for full membership in the international bodies...
...charge of Boston's 57,000 public-school students, 80% of them members of minorities. Black leaders and the School Committee protested the council's action, which must be approved by the Massachusetts legislature and signed by the Governor. But Mayor Raymond Flynn, who is pushing hard to overhaul the debt-ridden system, argues, "There's just no time anymore to sit around and think. We've got kids walking away from classrooms, who shoot and kill each other in the streets...
...Cambridge City Council last week approved a $950,000 water appropriation that will be used to maintain and upgrade the current purification system and also to plan for a major overhaul during the next few years...