Word: revamping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When he set out to revamp high school physics in 1956, M.I.T. Physicist Jerrold Zacharias sparked a chain reaction of reform that is beginning to push all U.S. education toward dramatically new ways of learning...
Your well-written, concise account of the Murchisons' sellout of their holdings in AIleghany Corp. (Dec. 21) gives as the reason that I would "block all their plans to revamp Alleghany...
...revamp the '63s cost Chrysler $125 million, but it was worth every penny. Over the U.S. as a whole, Chrysler's share of domestic car sales has gone from a postwar low of 9.6% with its '625 to nearly 11.6% with the '63s. If this percentage gain is held all year, it could mean a $350 million increase in Chrysler's sales. Already it has virtually ensured that Chrysler's 1962 earnings will be at least $50 million. In response, Wall Street has bid Chrysler's stock up from its 1962 low of 38 to last week...
...they recently found a voice in the student-run Harvard Crimson. In six scathing editorials, the Crimson blamed Pusey for everything from this year's last-minute 10% hike in room rents to silence on such vital issues as whether Harvard College should expand, how it should revamp general education, and why the university has not exploited federal aid like "the rising stars of American education, such as Berkeley and Michigan." In the Crimson lens, Pusey emerged as aloof, inarticulate, unable to "make relevant decisions." In its most chilling criticism, the Crimson added: "Those who have watched men desert...
...Kennedy Administration is really attempting to revamp the governmental bureaucracy by putting the right professional in the right position, last week's confirmation of John A. McCone as head of the C.I.A. simply indicates failure...