Word: overhauled
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...Members of the team also said it is important to frame the message carefully - emphasizing, for instance, estimates by the Congressional Budget Office that the health overhaul will save money in the long run, reassuring seniors who are afraid of seeing Medicare cut and stressing new provisions like ones that would protect people from becoming uninsurable as a result of pre-existing health conditions. (Watch TIME's video "Uninsured Again...
...Congress and will share the spotlight this week on Capitol Hill. And because of the odd politics of finance, and an aggressive behind-the-scenes push by the Obama Administration, real financial reforms have a better chance of becoming law by the end of the year than an overhaul of health care...
Everyone has known of that doomsday scenario for years - a time in which the needs of farmers, the ambitions of environmentalists and the thirst of cities clashed. The big news this week is that California finally passed legislation to overhaul the state's aging water system. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger called it "an historic agreement" and promised to sign into law. "Water is the lifeblood of everything we do in California," Schwarzenegger said. "Without clean reliable water, we cannot build, we cannot farm, we cannot grow, we cannot prosper." (See a story about the water crisis in the American west...
...along, as so many other judges did. But Wayne, who died Oct. 13 at 89, didn't wink at the law. After receiving handwritten letters from prison inmates describing awful conditions and brutal treatment, he appointed a lawyer to handle the case, a decision that led to an overhaul of the state's prisons. While most people in Texas were glad to use migrant laborers as indentured slaves, Wayne helped their children get an education in the state's public-school system...
...Undergraduate Council passed legislation last night that would overhaul the student group recognition process, creating a joint student-faculty committee comprised equally of students and administrators that will approve new student organizations...