Word: reworks
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...case, the late news from University Hall meant departments advertised for posts late, and were forced to rework long-term plans to compensate for anticipated searches that weren’t approved...
...FEMA be fixed? Administration officials tell TIME they plan to rework the agency's makeup and responsibilities--and perhaps even change its name to shed the stigma following the Hurricane Katrina fiasco. As Michael Brown, the former chief of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, emphasized during his occasionally churlish testimony on Capitol Hill last week, "FEMA does not own fire trucks, ambulances, search-and-rescue equipment." Says James Jay Carafano, an authority on homeland security at the conservative Heritage Foundation: "It's the National Disaster Coordinating Agency. You could probably come up with a sexier name, but that's what...
...consistently bogging down debate, but we worry that it could demand too many others to support often-needed examinations of controversial proposals. While we defer to those more familiar with the dynamics of UC debates to set the two-thirds limit for now, we hope that the UC will rework the number if it proves to be too high in practice...
...only about 150 students showed up to the Afterparty. While the rain certainly decreased turnout, the timing and planning of the event was hindered by serious flaws that would have hampered the festivities even if the weather had been good. The Undergraduate Council (UC) needs to rework future events based around Springfest to ensure their success. Independent of the weather, however, there were other factors conspiring against a successful Afterparty that should have dissuaded the bare majority of council members who voted for the event...
Online CUE evaluations promise significant logistical improvements to the system. An electronic system will save trees and tabulation time. The new system will also be far more flexible and open to reform. Already, this flexibility is being exploited to rework the format of the evaluations, allowing students to rate classes overall first before they evaluate secondary areas like difficulty and homework. We hope that increased flexibility will also lead to at least one other format change. Currently, the scale used to judge professors and Teaching Fellows ranges from 1-5, a far too limited span considering that students rarely give...