Word: redirect
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Furthermore, it would redirect between 30 and 50 per cent of federal funds for animal research to the development of alternative methods. The NIH, the principal government agency administering funds for biomedical research, granted $2 billion to more than 500 institutions for such research in 1980. An estimated three-quarters of this involved animal research...
...pleasure principle." What these people tend to overlook, points out Charles Schuster, director of the Drug Abuse Research Center at the University of Chicago, is the tremendous psychological risk: "One of cocaine's biggest dangers is that it diverts people from normal pursuits; it can entrap and redirect people's activities into an almost exclusive preoccupation with the drug...
Rostenkowski has thrown himself into the new job, impressing colleagues with his diligence. If he performs well in the tax fight, he could once again have a shot at the Speaker's role. But considering his distaste for Chicago Mayor Jane Byrne, Rostenkowski may redirect his ambitions. Says Analyst Rose: "Any Chicago politician understands a basic truth, that being Mayor of Chicago is more important than becoming a Senator, grand vizier-or Speaker of the House...
Peres' longer-range goal is to renew the country's economic growth. "Inflation is a beginning issue," he declares. "Development is a basic issue." He thus wants to redirect more investment capital
...would be hypocritical of the United States to condemn and oppose Soviet imperialism without ending our support for repressive regimes in El Salvador and South Africa. Our hands, too, are dirty. But to abandon Poland's workers while we redirect our policy towards the Third World would be a grave abdication of responsibility. We must both oppose Soviet aggression and correct our errors...