Word: reordering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...abacus to help the Council with the higher mathematics skills necessary to reorder their budgetary priorities...
Wolfe had planned to call his book O Lost. That title, however, did not appeal to Wolfe's editor, Maxwell Perkins of Charles Scribner's Sons, so Wolfe allowed Perkins to change the title, just as he allowed him to pare and reorder the text. But the theme remained...
...official silence was, in a way, understandable. Few bills that cross a President's desk have the potential to reorder the national agenda or change the way Government does business. Gramm-Rudman has precisely such potential, but the force that drove it through Congress was an embarrassment, not something to crow about. For at heart, Gramm-Rudman, an amendment to a bill to raise the debt ceiling, is a statutory act of desperation, an admission that Government is incapable of governing itself...
...Justices appointed by the election winner will have a chance not only to reorder the past but to shape the future. New constitutional dilemmas, like the ethical and moral complexities of genetic engineering, are beginning to wend their way to the high court...
Since 1968, when the Hungarians began to reorder their economy and abandon strict Soviet-style central planning, the country has pieced together a new system of economic management that mixes state ownership with individual enterprise. Hungarian agriculture, for example, has prospered by encouraging the cultivation of private plots on state-organized cooperative farms. The government is giving factory managers the power to make many of their own decisions about production quotas and reinvestment of capital and to reward efficient employees with bonuses. The latest reforms have given workers a say in choosing their bosses. Soon to come, say government economists...