Word: revampers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...CORPORATION likes to keep its image up to date, and apparently cleft chins are in this year, so the big brass decided to revamp the product. Most of the work on "Michael Jackson" was actually done on computers, of course, but in order to keep the public convinced that there really is such a person as "Michael" they sent me door-to-door to pencil in the new cleft on fans' posters while they were away...
...most of the last five years, under the direction of Dean Daniel C. (unclear) '46, the Medical School has been struggling to revamp a traditional curriculum, which critics say has left many students bored with trying to process an ever-growing and ever-changing body of medical information. As the climate of opinion changed, talk of curricular reform became rampant...
...aggressive strategy adopted by Chairman John Akers, 52, a Yale-educated former Navy pilot who has a low tolerance for mediocre performance. Instead of allowing IBM (1986 revenues: $51 billion) to rest on its dominant position in the market for large computers, Akers decided the company should revamp its entire product line and go after all segments of the business...
...There is a complete need to revamp the whole [mental health] system in the state," said Voke's Press Secretary Norman R. Lombardi...
...chairman prefers the stance of the battle-weary pol when reporters corner him to talk about the pending plan to revamp the College's disciplinary system. Although the plan bears little resemblance to the one the council outlined last year, Eisert painstakingly explains that it is the best students can hope for right now. Students, Eisert continues, must put aside futile confrontation and do what they can to make the College a little better when they leave it than when they entered...