Word: revamp
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plan to revamp the disciplinary apparatus that punishes students won support from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences steering committee this week, the group's spokesman said...
...inauguration ceremony yesterday, the dean of the Divinity School outlined plans to revamp and revitalize one of Harvard's poorest and least visible professional schools and to give it contemporary influence on the University and the world...
...bright spot for accountants is Washington's continuing effort to revamp the U.S. tax code. Says Arthur Bowman, editor of the Public Accounting Report: "Every time Congress simplifies things, everybody needs more help in figuring out their taxes." If tax reform passes, accountants may have something to cheer about in an otherwise gloomy situation...
...interests cover a wide range of topics. Members would like to have a say in the selection of a new dean of admissions who is sensitive to minority concerns, revamp the Harvard Foundation for race relations, better relations with the Harvard police and the more mainstream student organizations, and most importantly, effect changes in the College curriculum...
...general caution reflected fears that Gorbachev, like Andropov, was being oversold in parts of the West as a man of "liberal" views who would take radical measures to revamp the Soviet system and open doors to the outside world. In fact, very little was known in the West about Gorbachev until recently, except that he was a Moscow State University-trained lawyer and an agronomist, and a man of remarkable political staying power. Then, last December in Britain, Gorbachev and his wife created a stir with their unproletarian style--the London penny press called them the Gucci Comrades. Within days...