Word: redirection
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...economic argument for the welfare state is transparently fraudulent," concealing an intellectual desire to redirect society, the editor of the National Review charged. Even if every citizen had a million dollars John Kenneth Galbraith would still find a need for government action, he suggested...
...former cinema stalwarts - Anna May Wong, 53, who quit the screen 17 years ago after count less mystery women roles in Fu Manchu and Charlie Chan easterns; and Leni Riefenstahl, 53, German film star of the 1930s, called by Hitler "the perfect ex ample of German womanhood," who will redirect a remake of a movie in which she once starred, The Blue Light...
Taking the speaker's podium at a meeting of the U.S.S.R.'s Composers Union, famed Soviet Composer Dmitry Kabalevsky (TIME, Nov. 23) advised his musical comrades to redirect their suites to the sunny side of the street. "Our songs suffer from a tone of despondent melancholy," declared he. "Under the guise of lyrics appear the cries of the weak man complaining of his own private life." After the meeting, one of Kabalevsky's colleagues, Composer Aram (Sabre Dance) Khachaturian, whose music is anything but self-piteous, winged to the U.S., looked like any tired businessman when...
...Meyner as the "spendingest" governor in New Jersey history (his budgets have totalled $292 million more than those of his predecessor, Republican Alfred E. Driscoll). Actually, the issue is not at all clear-cut, for Forbes has also said that he would not reduce the budget, but would simply redirect it into different, and supposedly more fruitful, channels...
Groups like the Rockefeller Foundation are supplying a growing percentage of the University's funds, and placing restrictions on their use. The administration can do nothing to redirect funds already stipulated for scientific research, nor can it control the policies of these foundations. The foundations themselves must decide where their money goes. Admittedly scientific research is important, but so is work in other fields, and the donors should realize this in making a more equitable distribution of future gifts...