Word: retooled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...others had lifted Gephardt closer to the top of an institution that he had once seen only as a springboard to the White House. With Foley's demise, Gephardt became the highest-ranking Democrat to survive the G.O.P. onslaught. Now he had far more than his own image to retool. "This was destined to happen," Gephardt told his distraught staff the next morning. "We just have to get to work...
Last week, with a sudden clarity generated by the publicity, confusion and outrage surrounding the May 11 crash of a ValuJet DC-9 in the Florida Everglades, the FAA at last acknowledged that it is time to clean house and retool for the age of deregulation--which began in 1978. ValuJet chief Lewis Jordan signed a consent order grounding the airline, and another budget flyer, Kiwi, was ordered to cut back its fleet because of insufficient pilot training. The FAA administrator in charge of safety, Anthony Broderick, bailed out, while FAA head David Hinson and Secretary of Transportation Federico Pena...
...revival plan may be the company's last hope of retaining market share. With only some 8% of the PC market, Apple is rushing to retool its core computer line before weary loyalists decide they've had enough and switch to Microsoft's Windows 95. Operation Rainbow's second phase, which will include the launching of a robust new line of computers, should come this fall. Chahil hopes it will change the logo's hue again, this time to the color of money...
...chose to reinvent. At week's end Bennett was putting the finishing touches on a leveraged buyout that would take control of Prodigy from IBM and Sears and retool it into a net-based multimedia studio. If all goes according to plan, Bennett and his team will be running a giant-content company producing sports, entertainment and news-based Websites...
...light surprised a few winged bugs, suddenly turned into darting, looping stars." But to fill up the long stretches between inspirations, Updike relies on recitations of headlines and on reams of relatively undigested research: how to grow and pick asparagus, how to operate a suppository-making machine, how to retool an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle into a fully automatic...