Word: revamp
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Koti's cutting edge would at least reduce the bulk of bank notes Indonesians have had to lug around with them. But far more was needed to revamp the entire price-wage structure and provide incentives to restore production to decaying plantations and mines. Though the peasantry survives happily enough on bananas, breadfruit and barter, few city dwellers today can make ends meet without handouts of rice, free housing and cash from their employers...
Supporters of the automatic payment also pointed out that the Administrator of General Services, a Federal officer, would have to approve the city's assessment of Federal property. The President would have an absolute veto of city council measures. And since the Congress can review or revamp local operations at any time, it would not be abandoning control, merely delegating...
...years a bill designed to revamp and revitalize U.S. immigration policies languished in the House Judiciary Committee's Immigration and Nationality subcommittee. But under heavy pressure from President Johnson, the subcommittee approved the bill, which was, in turn, swiftly and overwhelmingly (26-4) cleared last week by the full Judiciary Committee for certain passage in the House. It faces almost equally certain approval by the Senate-assuming there is time to bring it to the floor this session...
Model in the Yard. In a drive to get his railroad out of the red, Oeftering last week was preparing a plan to pare its welfare load, revamp its crazy-quilt fare structure, and get fresh government capital to retire its debt, which costs $130 million a year in interest. His plan will probably be derailed by Chancellor Ludwig Erhard's administration, but Oeftering hopes to gain at least some mileage. Battling to make the state road run more like private industry, he relaxes from his work in the basement of his modest Frankfurt home, where...
...full line of products. At the same time, Arnold Maremont cast about into nonautomotive fields, picked up several basically sound companies in trouble and set them right. One problem acquisition: the Gabriel Co., a producer of auto shock absorbers and electronic gear, which took longer than expected to revamp, was largely responsible for slicing Maremont's 1963 earnings in half...