In recent months, public pianos surfaced around the city from the "Play Me, I'm Yours" traveling arts project, and prestigious museums have been going through overhauls.
Yet, through overhauls of Bach, Tchaikovsky and Sibelius, they were also part of an older pop tradition of adapting the bits everybody knows from the classics.
That view was later echoed by Ms. Merkel, who noted that Germany had to go through overhauls in welfare and the labor market in order to cut unemployment to three million people from five million.
While Mr. Obama said the bill also should provide "the groundwork" for Congress to achieve additional deficit reduction next year through overhauls of the tax code and spending for fast-growing entitlement programs, chiefly Medicare, Congressional Democrats said the likely measure by itself would do nothing to put such efforts in motion.
In the talks, Mr. Boehner had indicated willingness to consider $1 trillion in new revenue, with most of it generated through an overhaul of the tax code that would be pushed through next year.
In his talks with the White House, Mr. Boehner indicated willingness to consider $1 trillion in new revenue, with most of the new money to be generated through an overhaul of the tax code that would be pushed through Congress next year.
Thus, they say, they are most optimistic about pushing through an overhaul in 2015.
The financial sector initially suffered as Senate Democrats moved closer to pushing through an overhaul of the financial regulation system.
Officials see the bill's passage as further evidence for skeptical investors that Greece is committed to pushing through painful overhaul measures that will restore fiscal stability.
Ms. Erdmann's ire was focused on Mr. Obama, who she said failed to deliver on his promises to push through an overhaul.
