There have been emergency meetings in Whitehall from time immemorial but civil contingency planning was overhauled when Tony Blair was prime minister – during his premiership the Cobra acronym started being used as shorthand for meetings of the civil contingencies committee.
Later, this model was overhauled, when physicists decided that it made more sense to describe electrons as waves, swinging through areas that sweep out, fan-shaped, from the nucleus.
There was no significant off-season overhaul, as there was in 2007, but there is not much to overhaul when you have the best offense in football, a defense that is getting younger and faster, a quarterback and a head coach at the peak of their abilities, and a five-season stranglehold on the division.
They include overhauling when, where and how to lease coal, accounting for the impacts of coal leasing on the climate and reforming the way we calculate the value of publicly-owned coal to ensure that taxpayers aren't getting shortchanged.
Navigation and en-route surveillance were also much improved to handle the initial growth of jet traffic but subsequently had to be overhauled again when the number of flights grew to the point of saturating air traffic control capability.
TUCSON — Randy Gardner had stopped by Representative Gabrielle Giffords's community event on Saturday to thank her for supporting the health care overhaul when he heard the "boom, pop, pop, pop" and the cries of the wounded.
As you can see, the number of tax expenditures on the books plummeted after the 1986 tax code overhaul, when Congress decided the tax system needed a more or less clean slate because it was so complicated.
Russia took another step toward one of its most ambitious economic overhauls today, when the lower house of Parliament approved legislation that allows the breakup of the country's vast electricity network.
The immediate prospects for relocation include the West Side rail yards in Manhattan, a site proposed by Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani for a domed football and Olympic stadium, and Shea Stadium, which Fred Wilpon, the Mets' co-owner, has proposed overhauling for football when the Mets' new stadium is built.
After he was rejected on Thursday, Mr. Perry took a swipe at Ms. Pelosi for helping Democrats pass the health care overhaul when she was speaker of the House.
