Word: overhauled
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...fired everybody, says Noel Tichy, a professor at the University of Michigan's business school - including Lee Iacocca. Jacques Nasser, named CEO in 1999 to reinvent Ford, bought Volvo and Land Rover to create a luxury portfolio; he saw Ford as more than an auto company and tried to overhaul the culture. He was ousted in 2001 by Bill Ford Jr. - great-grandson of Henry - who took back the wheel for a couple of years...
Ensconced in the hallowed halls of the Faculty Club yesterday afternoon, Harvard’s classics professors unanimously approved a proposal that would open the concentration’s musty doors to more students, marking the department’s largest curricular overhaul for undergraduates in over 30 years...
...professionalizing its police forces. This year Washington approved $400 million for Mexico's antidrug fight in 2009, part of a three-year aid package known as the Merida Initiative. But critics say the plan focuses too much on interdiction hardware like helicopters and not enough on software like an overhaul of Mexico's police and judiciary - especially higher pay for cops, many of whom earn a measly $5,000 a year, and the creation of more modern investigative units. Without it, Calderón will continue to rely on his army in this fight, but in the long run, armies...
...demise of the lecture courses is the most pronounced feature of a proposed overhaul of the undergraduate English program, the first in more than two decades...
Professors declined to specify the impetus behind the overhaul...