Word: redirection
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...meet with each other and the city to find solutions and decrease unrest. The city in turn will have to increase its efforts to satisfy the needs of the Negro community, probably beginning with a review of police practices. There will be an attempt on both sides to redirect interest towards the substantive issues, and a growing interest among Negroes in developing the community as white store owners are residents move out, as many have already indicated they will. Finally, new leaders will win recognition, men like the Rev. James Breeden executive director of the Commission on Church and Race...
...best policy, then, would seem to be to redirect the Rangers, not to beat them or fool them. The Chicago police, following this line of thought, went so far as to arrange a peace treaty between the Rangers and their main rivals, the Disciples, last summer...
Accepting Keniston's premises and analyses--the sureness of his observations and the permanence of his subjects' uncommitment--what remedy does he prescribe? He urges the unleashing of the utopian impulse. "What is needed is to free that impulse once again, to redirect it toward the creation of a better society. We too often attempt to patch up our threadbare values and outworn purposes; we too rarely dare imagine a society radically different from our own." This moralism has become a commonplace in recent political thought, as has the demonstration that it is unlikely to occur. It is as fatuous...
With his overwhelming popular mandate and his awesome power over Congress, Lyndon Johnson was given-and passed up-a historic opportunity to reform and redirect the farm program...
Blending corn with cajolery, the President urged them to "join hands with your Government in a voluntary partnership." Appealing to their "progressive enlightened self-interest," he urged them to make "tougher" decisions to "postpone, to redirect or to refinance activities in the developed world." Said the President: "I want you to go back to your offices and call to your desk your financial men and your economists and your comptrollers and your vice presidents, and I would hope that you would ask them in a reasonable way to consult with you every time they face a decision that involves spending...