Word: revampers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...question is, Does any of this work? In Georgia, where boot camps were invented in 1983, boosters claim that it costs only $3,400 to house and revamp one inmate in 90 days, in contrast to the $15,000 annual bill for housing a prisoner in the state penitentiary. Boot camps provide one unquestioned benefit: they get the youthful offenders off the street and give them a taste of the debasement of prison life while offering them a startling "one last chance" to straighten...
PRESS: TV Guide gets a Rupert Murdoch revamp...
...Murdoch revamp, stories are shorter, pictures more plentiful and the fluff content higher, with a proliferation of one-page features on such hot topics as "Geraldo's Compromising Tattoo." The magazine has added a horoscope page and a rundown of the week's soap-opera plots -- two low-rent staples of daily newspapers. Its late-breaking news pages, once a source of knowing industry tidbits, have become splashier and more trivial ("Rating the Oscar Parties: The Best and the Worst"). Cover stories, meanwhile, have kept both eyes on the newsstand: a January story about rock music on TV, for example...
...Tigers had to revamp their lineup when leading attack Catherine McCarthy, a first team All-Ivy selection, broke her ankle...
...budget deficits. More important, Bush advisers are wary of applauding reforms that may turn out to be more mirage than reality. "Poland has serious structural economic problems," observes a senior Administration official. "The money it has previously borrowed from the West has been used very poorly." Unless the Poles revamp their economic system, says the official, "it's going to be money down the drain...