Word: retooled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that she was in denial, that she was rethinking her role as First Lady. But there was no self-doubt in the Hillary Clinton who charged back onto the political radar screen in a four-day media blitz last week. Though there were subtle signs of an effort to retool her image, she came across as cheerful, confident and as proudly unapologetic about her role as ever. The Republicans? Let her at 'em. She told a sympathetic crowd after accepting an award from the National Women's Law Center, "In many ways, our best days are ahead of us because...
After 18 months in the job, Woolsey increasingly finds himself fighting a surprising new band of domestic foes: lawmakers and other espionage experts who feel that the nation's spymaster has yet to prove he can retool U.S. intelligence for the post-cold war world. Woolsey is coming under growing attack for being too reluctant to cut his share of America's $28 billion annual intelligence budget and too slow to bring diversity to the spy ranks. The spotlight on the agency increased last week after TIME reported that more than 100 of the CIA's female case officers have...
...potent aura of success that subsequently surrounded her was regarded a vital ingredient in the quest to retool the New Yorker, a necessary precondition for change. Brown's appointment by publisher Si Newhouse was a determined attempt to bring the publication back into the black. Billionaire publishers are not unaffected by precipitous dips in circulation...
...profligacy and salvage what remains of a treasured legacy of wildlife and ancient forest. Neither the owl nor the timbermen are served by further governmental inaction or sham solutions. What is gained by waiting until the last fir topples, the owl slips closer to extinction, or the mills finally retool or shut down because there are no more old-growth trees available? The lesson of the owl is not that environmental and economic concerns are incompatible, but that the longer society lacks the political courage to act, the harder it is to find a solution. After years of industry obstructionism...
...parent corporation was stingy in investing in GM Europe, the company learned to make every cent count. "Basically these guys had to fight for everything they got," says Opel chairman Hughes. "But the fact is on the other side you've got this gigantic company with gigantic investments to retool all those products. It was too much. If there's a lesson here, it's that smaller is better. It's easier to control...