Word: revamp
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Similarly, the U.S. needs to revamp its technical assistance to poorer nations. In the past, development agencies have tended to promote pell-mell progress, leading many nations to conclude that environmental destruction is an integral part of economic advance. Senator Albert Gore, a Tennessee Democrat, advocates that assistance be refocused on "leapfrogging" technologies, like low-emission power plants, so that nations may better the lives of their people without repeating the mistakes of the industrial world. But to develop better technologies, says Harvard atmospheric scientist Michael McElroy, the U.S. will have to bolster its faltering science education...
...PBHA undertakes this year to revamp its structure and governance, the organization should keep one goal clearly in sight: ensuring that the authority of undergraduates is on par with that of the professional staff. Otherwise, staff meddling will continue to interfere with PBHA's true purpose...
...stakes in the air war are high. About 20% of all airline passengers worldwide this year flew business class, and the number is growing. United Airlines is spending $45 million to revamp its business class, while Continental is doubling its international business-class capacity. Airlines have decided that, with executives at least, it pays to be class conscious...
INSTEAD of extending the shuttle system, what the University ought to do is revamp the escort service. Here are a few suggestions...
Spence, who has spent the bulk of his five-and-a-half year tenure as dean on issues of faculty staffing, is quietly preparing to revamp the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). And he says he's convinced that increasing the number of senior faculty and bolstering the chances that junior faculty will receive tenure here are the keys to his plans for the venerable...