Word: reorientation
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...minimize damage from future Alaskan earthquakes, Army engineers are experimenting with a technique already used in Norway: forcing electrodes into the layer of clay and passing high-amperage currents between the electrodes to reorient the clay particles. Scientists are also conducting laboratory experiments that could some day put Anchorage on more solid ground. By pumping enough calcium salts into the clay to bind its particles together by electrolytic action, they hope to make the clay more viscous, resistant to shock and no longer thixotropic...
Still, Stampp is not of the might-have-been school. He wants to reorient our view toward a crucial and misunderstood era in history. And he succeeds. For he persuasively demonstrates that the pains of Reconstruction were only a symptom, not a cause, of the American dilemma, that the Radical Republicans were the precursors both of modern liberals and of Gilded Age politicos...
Monroney campaigned to reorient MATS not only to stop it from muscling in on the airlines but to improve its damaged military effectiveness. He charged that obsolescence had all but crippled MATS' 455-plane air fleet; two months ago MATS was forced to ground all its Wright Turbo Compound-powered Constellations because of maintenance problems, and it has kept its C124 Globe-masters in service only by cannibalizing disabled ships. MATS is in such sad shape that it will have to charter several dozen commercial aircraft for the airlift of 20,000 soldiers to next month's Army...
...Results. When they are satisfied that depatterning has gone on long enough, the psychiatrists withdraw the barbiturates gradually and cut the shock treatments to three a week. During a month of rehabilitation, a nurse or attendant helps the patient to reorient himself. After discharge there is intensive follow-up through doctors and social workers. By way of "maintenance treatment," the patient goes back to the hospital every week for shock therapy during the first month, and once a month for the next two years...
...primary importance, he says, is that the U.S. reorient its thinking and adopt a point of view implementing Japan as an ideological asset. "The problems are delicate and will require time, but they can be solved if the right objectives are sought...