Word: overhauled
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...Jews on the Harvard campus to then-President Abbot Lawrence Lowell, Class of 1877, Lowell replied that he “had foreseen the peril of having too large a number of an alien race and had tried to prevent it.” While Lowell’s overhaul of the admissions system discriminated against Jewish applicants at the time, the principles he advocated have ultimately led to a more diverse College body, and today give us a useful framework for understanding the value of all groups of students on campus—including recruited athletes...
...Harvard student’s stress level. The GRE, an examination required for admission to nearly every reputable graduate program, has long been little more than a rearranged SAT with more sophisticated vocabulary and reading passages. But with what the Educational Testing Service (ETS) calls the most significant overhaul in the GRE’s 55-year history, the test is likely to gain much-needed relevance as an indicator of ability to carry out graduate work. After four years of research consisting chiefly of consultation with the graduate school deans who sit on the GRE board, ETS will revamp...
...health insurance they promised employees who retired early--sometimes voluntarily, quite often not. They wrote pension rules that encouraged corporations to underfund their retirement plans or switch to plans less favorable to employees. They denied workers the right to sue to enforce retirement promises. They have refused to overhaul America's health-care system, which has created the world's most expensive medical care without any comparable benefit. One by one, lawmakers have undermined or destroyed policies that once afforded at least the possibility of a livable existence to many seniors, while at the same time encouraging corporations to repudiate...
They're working on it, Ms. Murphy. Mercedes is in the middle of a massive overhaul designed not only to fix the car problems and restore the luster but also to reinvent the company, no less. High-quality cars are a must, given the pounding Mercedes is taking from the likes of Lexus. The company is introducing a new S-Class (starting price for the flagship S500L version: around $115,00), which hits U.S. streets in January, joining two new R-Class models and a new M-Class SUV. At the same time, Mercedes has to revamp its manufacturing...
Widely recruited out of high school by Stanford, the University of North Carolina, and other Ivy League schools, the native of Moraga, California initially considered Stanford his top choice. But after an overhaul of the entire Stanford coaching staff and a postgraduate year at Phillips Exeter, Harvard became a natural fit for Breaux...