Word: reorienting
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...produced here, we feel will no longer serve us." This is especially true because China, which is poised to overtake Japan as the world's second largest economy, is an increasingly important trading partner for countries such as Japan, South Korea and Indonesia. "Asian firms would do better to reorient their exports and production towards meeting the demand of Chinese consumers," says Kit Wei Zheng, a Singapore-based economist with Citigroup. "Firms that refuse to change strategy to cater to Chinese demand will sooner or later find themselves overtaken by competitors and abandoned by investors...
...Chinese side of the equation, many economists believe, that remains unaddressed. Far from making the promised progress on needed structural reforms, China has either stood pat in the past year or has probably regressed in terms of taking steps that would reorient its economy toward consumption and away from savings and investment...
Harvard may reorient its long-term fundraising strategy to focus more attention on unrestricted funds rather than earmarked gifts, University President Drew G. Faust said in an interview last week, giving voice to a policy that has become increasingly important in the midst of the recent economic downturn...
...found was that the treatment of obesity was very frustrating," he says. Only about 5% of participants could keep the weight off, and although those 5% were more likely to exercise than those who got fat again, Brownell says if he were running the program today, "I would probably reorient toward food and away from exercise." In 2005, Brownell co-founded Yale's Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity, which focuses on food marketing and public policy - not on encouraging more exercise...
...students, we’re entitled to feel uncertain, about what we know and what we want, but at the same time, it can make us feel anxious. Soon, the impulse to reorient kicks in. All of us face high expectations here—from our families, our professors, and most often ourselves—about what we should be doing at what time and where. We cannot afford to be uncertain. As such, it shouldn’t be a surprise that many Harvard students struggle with mental health issues. Ours is an unforgiving environment, even for the hardiest...