Word: retools
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...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...
...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...