Word: reorients
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FLAP: Order of magnitude, expedite, implement, reorient, interoccupational mobility, mission oriented...
Princeton is one of those rare teams that still clings to the single-wing system, and it's sometimes difficult for a defense to reorient its thinking for the Tigers. Harvard, however, manages to contain Princeton better than any other Ivy team. In the last eight years Princeton has scored only nine touchdowns against Harvard...
...older men flourishes, middle-aged men will be rid of the fear they now legitimately have that being fired, or quitting a job after 40, means a long, scary interlude in limbo before getting rehired. Transitional schools like Lynn Selwyn's Everywoman's Village may help reorient women who see their grown children as their epitaph. The cultural explosion will give more middle-agers secondary interests in the arts, those exciting openers of the mind's eye that keep the human horizon from shriveling...
...authority itself. A nation needs a sense of history as much as it needs a sense of the future; it needs tradition not as a soporific, but as a means of measuring itself. Anthropologist Loren Eiseley defines the problem: "It would be an awful bother to have to reorient oneself every morning. If you build a skyscraper so rigid that it cannot sway, it will crack and break under the tension. The same is true of social institutions; change must be allowed for. But for an institution to be an institution, it must perforce have some rigidity...
...protégé of the legendary Luis Munoz Marin, who retired as chief executive in January 1965. A quiet, pipe-smoking administrator, Sanchez last week sent to his legislature no fewer than 34 pro osals, the first part of a dynamic and demanding 85-point program designed to reorient Bootstrap to the island's new problems...