Word: recast
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Marcos' New Society Movement were angry because the new Minister of Local Government, Aquilino Pimentel, indicated that Aquino might name many of her own people to provincial and municipal slots and postpone local elections expected in May. The new President ran into less opposition when she attempted to recast the Marcos-dominated judiciary. By week's end she had secured resignations from ten of the twelve members of the Supreme Court and from 37 of 38 judges on the appellate court...
Hutton pledged to take all the remedies that Bell prescribed to prevent recurrences. Until now, Hutton has been largely run by insiders; only four of its 27 directors are from outside the company. But to provide additional controls, the firm's board will be recast to include a majority of outsiders in place of corporate officers. Hutton will restructure its management chart so that diverse number-crunching departments will answer to a single top financial executive...
...kind of narrative flourish that calls into question its own flourish. He writes in a pastiche of Daniel Defoe's 18th century documentary style, a la Robinson Crusoe or A Journal of the Plague Year, but occasionally interrupts in his own voice to take over the narrative or to recast his themes in a 20th century perspective...
Once at Harvard, Rosegrant continued to recast her goals. One roommate describes Rosegrant's four college years as a three-phase dialectic progression: anthroplogy took up her first two college years, social work in Phillips Brooks House dominated the next year and a half, and the two activities fused in her senior thesis--a study of the lives of five lower-class women she met during PBH work in a housing project...
...agreement, which was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, settled a lawsuit begun a year ago by the SL and the Spartacus Youth League (SYL), its youth group. The organizations challenged the FBI on the grounds that it falsely recast the organizations as terrorist groups. The suit forced the FBI to redefine the organization exactly as it is--a Marxist political organization--instead of attributing to the group a conspiratorial commitment to violent overthrow of the government...