Word: redirect
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harold J. Berman, Ames Professor of Law, in his keynote address, stressed that the U.S. and the Soviet Union should not be satisfied with maintaining the current detente but should instead strive to become allies. Only then he argued, can the countries end the threat of nuclear war and redirect their energies to help Third World countries...
...Black students organization the fundamentalist Christian Seymour Society announced that they were beginning a one week symbolic fast (by eating only fruit), and invited the original fasters to join them. They stressed that the purpose of their protest was not to strong arm the University, but to redirect attention from the hunger strike itself to the moral issues involved in divestiture...
...effort to divert the magma, Italy's minister of civil protection summoned a team of volcanologists. The strategy: to redirect the lava from its southward path into a wide hollow, away from inhabited areas. The specialists hoped that spreading the lava would speed its cooling, and thus slow the momentum of the flow. The diversion required the removal of a 25-ft. section in a 328-ft.-long natural wall of old lava, and was to be accomplished by precision blasting...
Harvard's Certificate of Advanced Study (CAS) program--and similar offerings at other Massachusetts universities are attempting to "debunk the myth that you have to be a math major to work with computers," said Michael R Paige, manager of Wang Laboratories "We want to redirect--people who have good back grounds in all field and make them more marketable," said Paige, who has worked as a curriculum consultant...
...even the most experienced generals concede is almost impossible to visualize. Proliferation to nations with no shake in or conception of global nuclear balance has yet to raise a specific threat, but within the next two decades it will occur unless the superpowers cut off the arms race and redirect intellectual and technical power toward peaceful purposes...