Word: reworks
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When the Faculty Council—the 18-member governing body of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences—considered the draft report at its meeting last Wednesday, some members suggested the committee reconvene to rework its recommendations, according to former Undergraduate Council president Matthew W. Mahan ’05, a member of the general education committee who was at the discussion...
...place where the interests of Bush and Frist are particularly intertwined is health care. The Bush Administration has sought to redefine health care in much the same way they're trying to rework Social Security, pushing for changes such as health savings accounts that offers Americans both the control and risk of managing their own well-being. Frist has been a strong supporter and has laid many other ideas that are in the budget the White House released on Monday, including improved medical technology, putting more kids on government-funded programs for low-income children and increasing funds to combat...
...restaurants, as neighborhood groups had always led the city to believe. "311 democratizes the system," says Charles Sturcken of the city's department of environmental protection, which monitors 18 categories of noise. One result is a new noise-control bill making its way through the city council that would rework regulations on everything from car alarms to ice cream trucks--and require that construction sites have noise-reduction plans. Some of those noise complaints also shed light on an old problem: unlicensed, makeshift bars. But which calls were just about illegal clubs, and which were about rowdy neighbors? New York...
...hyperbolic and rash. By contrast, Cohen laments, books like Who Killed Daniel Pearl? don't get a single bad review despite what he calls their unremarkable writing and problematic ethics. The reason, he argues, is that instead of breaking new intellectual ground, Lévy and his modern peers rework existing ideas to justify media-hyped, crowd-pleasing moralism. "BHL has taken up all the great causes of our time," Cohen writes. "BHL is a bit to literature what Mondavi is to wine." Asked to respond to Cohen's book, Lévy quotes Romanian philosopher Emil Cioran...
...team loses a top forward or defenseman, and it hurts—but there are still dozens more ready to refigure and reformat and rework the systems until the squad finds a way to fill the void. It smarts, but it also happens often, if only because of sheer numbers...