Word: overhauled
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...immigration overhaul in 1986 was supposed to have fixed the root problem of an uncontrolled influx by making it illegal for U.S. employers to hire undocumented workers and offering an amnesty to illegal immigrants who had been here for five years at that point. Instead, the best estimates suggest that since then, the number of illegal immigrants has more than tripled. Local governments are staggering under the costs of dealing with the inflow, and since 9/11, controlling who comes into the country has become a security issue as well...
Among insiders, it's being called "the reboot." Although President George W. Bush stuck close to home when he chose Budget Director Josh Bolten to succeed chief of staff Andrew H. Card Jr. last week, officials consulted by the White House said the overhaul will be more consequential than it looked at first. These officials said Bolten, who comes on board April 15, plans to put some new faces in front of the public and on Capitol Hill. Bush, who retired to his Texas ranch for the weekend after a summit in Cancún, did not want it to appear that...
...these updates are buried under obscure headers unlikely to be reached by the typical browser. In advance of a complete website redesign, simple steps can be taken to maximize the use of what is already in place. We do hope to see the fruits of a long-promised website overhaul in the near future, and it appears this administration is committed to seeing this initiative through, but in the interim, basic information voids should be filled...
...Harvard University Art Museums (HUAM) recently announced a multi-year plan to overhaul its museums and to stake a claim in the University’s new campus across the Charles River in Allston. Cabot Museums Director Thomas W. Lentz oversaw the project and sought to incorporate feedback from numerous faculty members and students in the History of Art and Architecture department, as well as from Harvard officials responsible for the planning and development of the new campus. Under Lentz’s scrutiny, HUAM plans to renovate its historic building on 32 Quincy St., which currently houses both...
...with the calls from endless commentators to “Free Harvard!” and to overhaul our University once and for all, we print these words as a reminder of true bondage: being tied to Yale—the home of the Bushes, the Ivy den of crime, the bastion of perpetual disappointment, and your alma mater for the rest of your life...