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...sheriff, Archibald Cox. But when Cox fought back tears to continually plead, "I beg of you to let the speakers be heard," he commanded my empathy and respect. When rational discourse and reasoned argument are abandoned for obscene rhetoric and frenzied screaming, the time has come not to reassess national but personal priorities, and determine what we are learning and living and fighting...
There is no way of fixing the precise moment at which the radical left decided to pause in its headlong pursuit of the apocalypse, but the reason for the halt was clear enough: nothing was working right; it was time to retrench, reassess...
...Nixon administration's failure to continue vigorous federal support to education has forced the Ed School to reassess its process of change and clearly delineate its priorities...
Saving Money Too. The outplacement firms have their critics. Some industrial psychologists feel that an executive who has been fired needs the determination to reassess his abilities and find a job on his own. Thomas Hubbard, president of THinc., raises the question of conflict of interest on the part of the companies that do both outplacement and conventional executive recruiting. "No one knows," he says, "when one company's $45,000-a-year dehiree will be touted by the firm to another company as their 'new $50,000 hotshot.' "Officials of the companies involved reply that they...
...Administration strategists quickly assembled in Hruska's office right after the recommittal vote to reassess the situation. They looked at that eight-vote margin and compared notes on which pro-Carswell Senators they might lose. To their consternation, they detected the same potential slippage that Bayh and Brooke had sniffed: the possible loss of Republicans Packwood, Fong and Percy, plus Democrat Dodd. That would not be fatal, since Vice President Agnew would break the tie in the Administration's favor, but it was highly dangerous. "We knew then that we were in trouble," one strategist recalls. The White House...