Word: reinvente
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...creation, to be stuffed for the American Museum of Natural History. Lyndon Johnson returned to his Texas ranch to drink and smoke and grow his hair long like a hippie and wait to die. Richard Nixon did brooding penance beside the Pacific, then went back East to reinvent himself as elder statesman...
...interesting case of Jimmy Carter. Buried, after one term, in the Ronald Reagan landslide of 1980, widely scorned as the micromanager of malaise held hostage by the Ayatullah, Carter in his post-White House incarnation performed a cunning reversal. An engineer by training, he did not so much reinvent himself as reconstruct, in another dimension, the job from which the American people had fired...
...sports car by instantly drawing on part of the wealth inherent in your vacation house." Finance, suddenly packed with microchips, could become a banker-free zone. Hence the drive of McColl, who is responding to an immutable merger of the laws of finance and the laws of modern business: reinvent yourself...
...states struggle to reinvent welfare, privatization has become one of the hottest trends. To beleaguered welfare officials, hiring private contractors to run state welfare programs holds the promise of unleashing the efficiency and flexibility of the market on dysfunctional state bureaucracies. And to the private companies that are moving aggressively into the field, it dangles the possibility of big profits and high-flying stock prices. Privatization has had some notable successes. In some states it has increased the number of welfare recipients going to work by operating well-managed training and job-placement programs. In others it has raised child...
Instead we must follow the deal established by former Harvard President A. Lawrence Lowell, class of 1877, and stated at the forum by Dean Epps: we must continue to reinvent ourselves. We must take all that we learn, from both the classroom and the world around us, and incorporate it into one complete personality...