Word: redirection
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...Judge Carter turns down Browning on both issues, Patty's ordeal on the stand-during this trial at least -may be over. At week's end Bailey said he had not decided whether to call Patty for a redirect examination. "Redirect is to repair damage which has been done." The quote was pure Bailey: breezy, confident, and brushing aside the best efforts of Jim Browning during the long week of his own ordeal...
...press usually describes the evacuation of Phnom Penh as a vengeful, irrational act by the Khmer Rouge, designed mainly to subdue and redirect the population. But less biased observers say that, in fact, if the Communists had not evacuated Phnom Penh in April, many thousands would have died of cholera, plague and starvation. The city's pre-1970 peacetime population had been 600,000; by last April, it had been swelled by 3 million refugees from the war. The U.S.-backed Lon Nol regime had lost control of the whole countryside, so it depended completely on American food shipments. These...
...thought that the Chinese had interesting merchandise that our customers would like." says Presdient Marvin Traub, recalling how the venture began in 1971. When the White House lifted the embargo on trade that summer. Traub immediately called a friendly French importer of Chinese goods and persuaded him to redirect to Bloomingdale's a shipment already on route to France. Result: on Oct. 25, 1971 the very day the U.N. gave a seat to the People's Republic, Bloomingdale's opened its "China Passage" shop. The timing helped to make the shop an immediate hit. Woven rattan baskets...
Rosovsky described several undergraduate trouble areas: Just what the goal of undergraduate education is, what are to be the roles of General Education, counseling and advising, and whether there is a need to redirect all available resources. He suggested an investigation of the possibilities for a "wholly free elective system" and an evaluation of how Faculty resources freed by the shrinking size of the graduate school can be exploited for undergraduates...
...schools and meet guidance counselors, attend high school college nights and check the local papers for write-ups of exceptional scholar-athletes that may appear. Humenuk, a lawyer from Chestnut Hill, has been at the job for an exhausting four years. In that time he has tried to redirect, as much as one man can, the Harvard admissions office from choosing solely from Philadelphia's more prestigious prep schools--as has always been the case--to at first some unexamined outer suburban schools, and then the forgotten parochial and inner city schools...