Word: reassessing
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...fulfill their function the members of university faculties must continue to analyze, test, criticize and reassess existing institutions and beliefs . . . such investigations cannot be confined to the physical world. The acknowledged fact that moral, social and political progress have not kept pace with mastery of the physical world shows the need for more intensified research, fresh insights . . . The scholar's mission requires the study and examination of unpopular ideas, of ideas considered abhorrent and even dangerous . . . Timidity must not lead the scholar to stand silent when he ought to speak . . . In matters of conscience and when he has truth...
Then the President turned to reassess the Korean war. He ignored the happy delusion that the Korean war, of itself, is somehow a "lesson" which has taught Communists the folly of aggression. Said he: "It is clearly a part of the same calculated assault that the aggressor is simultaneously pressing in Indo-China and in Malaya, and of the strategic situation that manifestly embraces the island of Formosa and the Chinese Nationalist forces there." With the war thus redefined, his next step was easy...
...former has no more than a 50-50 chance of surviving. The missile will always have a speed and maneuverability advantage because the aircraft must be designed around human limitations . . . If it takes two $100,000 missiles to destroy a million-dollar bomber, hadn't we better reassess the latter's real strategic value? . . . Control of the air will shortly pass from piloted aircraft to antiaircraft guided missiles [and then] the piloted aircraft will cease to have tactical significance except for noncombat employment...
Dwindling Wealth. Apart from money, the U.S. had to reassess how far it could stretch its own natural resources. The vast new expansion was using up such minerals as iron, copper and lead far faster than anyone had anticipated only a few years ago. In many ways the U.S., once the owner of seeming inexhaustible natural treasures, was in danger of becoming a have-not nation. The end of the fabulously rich ores of the Mesabi Range was already in sight. Steelmakers not only began shipping in ore from South America and Liberia, but in 1951 they began operating plants...
...part of what the Council can do to improve the workings of the House System, we feel that it should seriously reassess the advisability of continuing the existence of the Sophomore and Junior Class Committees. The election and supervision of these committees seems to us to give the Council unnecessary trouble...