Word: overhauls
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Wilson makes no bones about being a social democrat, and his policy suggestions are correspondingly nothing if not ambitious in the context of American politics. He is not afraid to claim that helping the underclass entails an overhaul of the American economy and growth in the public sector...
Those who perceive a drop-off in maintenance tend to blame deregulation and the pressure it has placed on airline profits. Maintenance is expensive: when United performs a major overhaul on a 747, the job consumes almost 15,000 worker-hours and $2.5 million. During the first eight years after deregulation, from 1979 through 1986, the industry suffered gross operating losses of $7.1 billion, as opposed to $2.2 billion in profits in the previous eight years. Many airlines have bounced back, so that the industry as a whole should post operating profits of more than $2 billion in 1988, predicts...
...bill would overhaul the system under which the United States imposes import curbs and takes other steps to retaliate against international trade violations...
Like any other, this reform would entail some complications. School curricula would have to be condensed, which would demand a major overhaul of our educational system. An even more serious problem would arise as young adults entered the workforce earlier, causing a large rise in unemployment...
...walk home alone late at night. But at Harvard, students often don't have much choice--especially if they want to get home late at night. The University's remedy, the escort service, is completely inadequate in providing secure transportation and is in need of an overhaul...