Word: tweaks
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Since then, the franchise has gradually expanded, thanks largely to the dogged efforts of British Governor Chris Patten, who has done his best to tweak China since his arrival on the scene three years ago. In the face of China's displeasure and threats to dissolve all elected bodies upon the 1997 takeover as well as conservative and Pro-China opposition within the colony, Patten lowered the voting age from 21 to 18 and institated direct elections for local councils. He also expanded to 20 the number of directly elected seats in the 60-member Legislative Council, while abloshing...
...Clinton Administration is about to"reinvent" Social Security-- make that tweak -- with a new scheme to stagger millions of retirement and disability checks now sent out at the beginning of each month. The plan doesn't do much for the system's bankrupt future, but officials of Vice President Gore's National Performance Review say it ease the monthly burden on the U.S. Postal Service by spreading it out, and will save the government up to $1 billion over five years. Recipients will also be required to receive their checks electronically by direct deposit.TIME Washington correspondent Suneel Ratansays the worst...
...mainstream of medical care, thanks to lower-cost computers, significantly improved clarity of video images and improvements in networking and telecommunications. Many surgeons routinely use sophisticated computer-driven probes and TV imagery to help them in their diagnoses and operations. All this and more already exists. With a little tweak of the technology here or an imaginative pairing with other technologies there, computer-based devices are likely to affect our lives even more frequently in the months -- as well as in the years -- ahead...
Congressional Republicans chose one of their new faces -- Tennessee Sen.-elect Fred Thompson -- to welcome Clinton?s embrace of tax cuts, and to tweak him for jumping on a GOP-led train two years into his presidency. "Until a few weeks ago, (Democrats) were saying we didn?t even need a tax cut," Thompson said, after enumerating similarities with his Party?s 10-point "Contract with America." He told November supporters: "Your vote got the president?s attention." Thompson offered one more parting barb at Clinton?s new concoction: "We must do more than just reshuffle a few agencies...
...installed this summer to replace the old husc computers, which couldn't keep up with anticipated demand. HASCS has continued to fix, or "tweak," fas in an effort to improve performance. The patch, the most involved tweak yet, altered the program on fas that controls logging in. Previously, the program was not quitting correctly...