Word: reinvention
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...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...
Reeves questioned the project's chances for success, citing what he described as its "bureaucratic" nature and criticizing it for "trying to reinvent the wheel...
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...
...copied from the Czechs all they could to free themselves of the worst tyranny ever known to man. When I asked Gorbachev's former top economic adviser, Stanislav Shatalin, why Russia did not just carbon-copy all the Czech commercial and tax codes, instead of endlessly debating how to reinvent the wheel, he replied, "Because the Czechs solve their differences in a bar over a beer, while we use knives...
...York City policeman named Bobby Benedetto, is finally running away. Helped along by an underground railway for victims of domestic abuse, Fran, after years of beatings and broken bones at Bobby's hands, is vanishing with their 10-year-old son Robert. The oldest American story: escape to reinvent the self. Fran changes her name to Beth Crenshaw and ends up in a dreary garden apartment in inland Florida, an hour from the ocean. She and Robert, afoot beside the Florida highway, have their Thanksgiving dinner at the Chirping Chicken and try to come to terms with their memories...