Word: reassessed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...good times and bad-all these were qualities of the beer business a few years ago. Now the $16-billion-a-year industry is being shaken by a costly battle for market shares that has sent some brewers to search for cash-heavy merger partners, other companies to reassess their marketing strategies, and nearly all the well-known firms to bring out new brands to curry the customers' fickle favor. Small regional brewers can scarcely keep afloat, with the result that sales are increasingly concentrated among the Big Five. Since 1972, Anheuser-Busch, Miller, Jos. Schlitz, Pabst and Coors...
...report recommends that the U.S. reassess its nuclear power program and the safety standards of operating nuclear plants in light of the possibility of a major nuclear accident...
...even graver danger here has emerged than that of journalists simply confusing their duties when confronting intimidating speakers. Many journalists have begun to reassess their roles. This new role permits the deliberate cooperation of journalists with elites to suppress information which they believe is too controversial for the average reader to react sensibly to. The emphasis shifts from reporting the news to sifting the news. These journalists see themselves in a position to responsibly cooperate with powerful officials to makes sure the masses never learn too much about policies the public might object to, but which are, nevertheless, for their...
...possible--and there are innumerable political precedents for this--that the British government was ignorant of it. Only when the Catholics rose up in protest in 1968 and the present troubles were ignited (and Ulster became a burden, and not an asset) did the British government reassess its position and begin applying political leverage. Its first major move was the introduction of troops in 1969 to quell rioting, particularly of the Protestants, who were gearing up for full-scale violence...
...novelist keeps Hannah's dilemma in the foreground without ignoring its effect on those around her. Gestures like Hannah's shake the pillars of society; friends and loved ones are forced to reassess her life and theirs. Especially torn is Hannah's husband, who is treated as anything but the ogre who pops up in much current feminist fiction. A well-meaning man who has be come the "bill-paying machine" everyone expected him to be, Henry Jackson first tries to bully and then to cajole Hannah into the operating room. He argues sensibly that...