Word: reorientation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years ago he made up his mind to "reorient" himself "and start all over again." He quit his designing job, joined a cooperative farm colony in Suffolk, England, and spent a year on the soil. When he got back to Belfast he found he had left his surrealist props under a haystack, along with the prissily smooth painting methods of his past...
...their eagerness to put the calculator to work, the committee should not let the preparedness of the physicists outweigh the need of the psychologist. The latter must be given a little grace to reorient his thinking. As Professor Leontief, also a member, of the committee, points out, his fellow economists have intentionally pursued their investigations in broad, vague terms, because of the tediousness and expense of dealing mathematically with the voluminous statistics confronting them. The genius of the calculator is that it can deal with many variables operating simultaneously. In the fluid and changing battleground of economics, sociology, and social...
Equally important is the French drive to divorce Austrians from their German cousins. Over & over again the French tell them: "Whatever you produce we will buy or Italy will buy or England will buy. You need not depend on Germany. Reorient yourself from the north towards the south and west. Be independent of Germany and stay out of trouble...
...gobbled up seven companies, may still top its '41 record, when it picked up nine. But last week kinetic Mr. Brush had his mathematical mind firmly fixed on the postwar world: he had just completed a dicker with Metropolitan Life for a $7,500,000 loan to rebuild, reorient and expand further his scattered $8,400,000 plant...
President Higinio Morinigo, brought over by promises to keep him in office after the expiration of his legal term, aided the military clique in its plan to dismiss pro-Allied Foreign Minister Luis Argana and reorient Paraguayan policy toward neutral Buenos Aires rather than toward belligerent Rio. The Morinigo Government stopped work on the new $1,000,000 airport under construction near Asunción. The protests of bearded U.S. Ambassador Wesly Frost produced no results and U.S. airport engineers packed to go home...