Word: reassess
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...interviewer before leaving for Saigon. "Once he realizes that we're no pushover, that his country is being drained when its finest manpower moves south, never to return, that his industry is being destroyed, that at the same time South Viet Nam is on the upswing, he will reassess his strategy. Once he realizes that we're ready, willing and able to continue this pressure, the facts of life will prevail. If not, it's going to take him a generation or more to recover...
...best institutes of technology in the U.S.-Caltech and M.I.T.-have reached new milestones, marking a time for them to reassess their roles and goals. Last week Caltech (enrollment 1,494) held a three-day scientific convocation to observe its 75th anniversary. A few weeks earlier, M.I.T. (enrollment 7,400) inaugurated a new president, Economist Howard Wesley Johnson, 44. As each school looks inward, it also stares across the 2,600 miles between Pasadena and Cambridge with what an M.I.T. professor terms "interested tension"-a polite phrase for one of academe's hottest and healthiest rivalries...
...Food and Drug Ad ministration has its way, many a bottle is going to disappear from drugstore and medicine-cabinet shelves in the next year or so. A few have been knocked off recently, but more will go now that FDA is invoking the power to reassess all the drugs that were approved from 1938 through early 1963, to see whether they measure up to the high standards set by the "thalidomide law." That law, officially the Drug Amendments Act, passed in 1962, contained a delay clause allowing previously approved drugs to stay on the market for two years without...
Seeking ways to avert a long series of such defeats, the Johnson Administration continued to hint that it is seriously considering fundamental changes in the ground rules under which it has waged the war. The State Department announced the 'creation of a new interagency task force to reassess the whole deteriorating situation. It is headed by William H. Sullivan, 41, a special assistant to Under Secretary of State Averell Harriman, and it will report directly to Secretary of State Dean Rusk...
Under U.S. urging, Secretary-General Dirk Stikker (ailing and probably due for early retirement) is carrying out sweeping studies to reassess NATO force levels and basic strategy. The French have been working against the "Stikker studies." Clinging to their own massive retaliation theory, which holds that any aggression in Europe must turn into a nuclear war, De Gaulle's men sneer at Washington's concept of "balanced" conventional-and-nuclear forces to provide a "flexible response" to Red moves...