Word: overhauls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gorbachev has his own domestic agenda to consider. He is deeply committed to his crusade for perestroika, an overhaul or restructuring of the entire * Soviet economic and social order. His vision entails far more than just reducing drunkenness on the job and replacing petty-minded bureaucrats with efficient technocrats. He wants to make the Soviet Union an economic superpower as well as a military...
...successful, Thiemann's efforts will constitute an overhaul of Harvard's religious programs, which have become increasingly specialized and less relevant to what many call the school's central mission of producing a literate ministry, divinity professors said after the speech...
Still, the Soviets announced that they have shut down and are modifying about half of the country's 14 RBMK-1000 Chernobyl-type reactors. Legasov said the overhaul will include the addition of more control rods to slow down nuclear fission in the water-cooled reactor core. Operators will have only limited ability to withdraw the rods, and a safer blend of uranium fuel is being developed...
Perhaps the most significant change at the University has been the complete overhaul and inflation of the central administration, where Bok has increased the number of vice presidents from one to five...
...special breaks and deductions that have accrued over the past four decades? No way! Let the free market determine how people spend and invest their money rather than allow shills for favored industries to use the tax code to tinker with the economy? Get real! Such a drastic overhaul would amount to putting the public interest ahead of special interests -- in this case nearly every interest with enough clout to hire a lobbyist. And everybody knows the political process does not work that...