Word: redirection
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...Many people will have to take part with enthusiasm" to create the new core, Rosovsky said. He added that some teachers on the Faculty may have to "redirect" their energy and perhaps reexamine their priorities...
Without increasing the federal budget, the Government might sensibly redirect some of its stimulative spending?a bit less for the booming Sunbelt, a bit more for the Northern and Midwestern states, where the urban underclass is concentrated. In 1975, for every tax dollar sent to Washington from the Midwestern states, 760 returned; the Northeastern states got back 860; but the South collected $1.14 and the West $1.20. One reason for the disparity is that many corporations have their headquarters in the Northeast and Midwest, from which they pay taxe based on their total national sales. But there are other factors...
...dedication to science goes from the slightly mundane--his insistence on doing all lab work himself, forgoing the use of technicians and assistants--to what Everett I. Mendelsohn, professor of the History of Science, says is some of the most inventive scientific thinking--Wald's use of biochemistry to redirect theories on the origin of the universe. At all levels of understanding, science, for Wald, is a universal language. "I am deeply glad to be a scientist because I think that human beings have always and everywhere asked the same questions," he says...
...constantly at work trying to resolve clauses in contracts which permit the government project officer to redirect research...
...report charged that the Nixon Administration, during Kissinger's days as the President's National Security Adviser, had entered into a secret commitment to sell Iran "virtually any conventional weapons it wanted." As a result, concluded the subcommittee, "the U.S. cannot abandon, substantially diminish or even redirect its arms programs without precipitating a major crisis in U.S.-Iranian relations." * Indeed, said the subcommittee, there were so many Americans -24,000 at last count-in Iran as a result of these sales that in a crisis, they could virtually be held hostage by the Iranian government...