Word: retooling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...music director is leaving, and there has been an administrative shuffle as well. The San Francisco Opera, one of the nation's largest companies, canceled its summer season because of a $2 million deficit. Says Tully Friedman, president of the company's board: "We're going to have to retool the way we do business to survive in the '80s and beyond...
...court's decision came at the dawn of a new era in public morality and popular art. TV was becoming the mass medium of the middle class, yoked to the old restrictions, made timid by its new power. And other media -- film, radio, music -- were freed or forced to retool their products for narrower, more intense audiences. Pop culture was now as fragmented as modern art, and movies were boutique items in the great mall of contradictory American tastes. Movies for kids: I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957). Movies for mature adults: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf...
Beyond the mechanical fixes, however, is the need to retool NASA. The consensus in Washington and the aerospace community alike is that NASA needs to be stripped of its near monopoly over U.S. space operations and returned to its former pre-eminent role as a research-and-development agency...
...while I do not know how to repair or retool these appliances, I am relatively proficient in operating them...
Harvey Shephard, the CBS programming chief who preferred to retool The Twilight Zone rather than take a chance on Spielberg's anthology of original stories, is convinced that Amazing Stories is actually his network's secret weapon. Shephard predicts "a high initial tune-in sample" of the NBC show, followed by a return to tele firma. And if that does not happen, all CBS has to do is contrive to let a Sunday-afternoon N.F.L. broadcast run overtime, thus pushing 60 Minutes back by ten or 15 minutes, and 60 Minutes loyalists will miss the first half of an Amazing...