Word: rethink
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Take the wheat deal, for which we have been criticized. Our intelligence was faulty. But there was not a thought by anyone that we would not have enough wheat. Our whole orientation-by Congress, by farm experts, by businessmen-has been to sell it when we could. We must rethink where...
...Indeed, there are almost as many visionary notions about what education's future shape should be as there are school critics. Diversity, however, is precisely what is called for. A respect for the differences in students' backgrounds and interests must guide colleges and universities as they, too, rethink their objectives. Since it is readily apparent that their degrees no longer ensure top jobs, colleges and universities must offer students far more than credentials. They must become more concerned with enhancing their students' lives -with helping a Maynard find wisdom or an Alsop acquire seasoning. Education...
Others argue that there is nothing predestined about the European adventure. Political unity? If that is to be added to the present economic goals, says Richard Mayne, one of Britain's most eloquent Europeanists, then "we have to rethink the idea of Europe." Italy's Spinelli emphasizes the crucial role of the men at the top. Depending on the perceptions of its leaders, he believes, Europe could just as easily return to crude nationalism, or seek unity and security in some other "system of vaster and more diverse dimensions...
...fundamentalist: his enterprise has been to rethink the process and nature of architecture, not from Volume I of its history but from what he calls Volume Zero. "Volume Zero," he says, "is what precedes shape, it is the source." His reflections on the nature of building materials express themselves in apparently irreducible riddles, like Zenkoans (Q. "What does a brick like?" A. "An arch"), or bizarrely provocative but elliptical ruminations...
...enlightened employers have concluded that work, not workers, must change. Says Robert Ford, personnel director at American Telephone & Telegraph: "We have run out of dumb people to handle those dumb jobs. So we have to rethink what we're doing." In restructuring work, corporate experimenters have hit on a number of productive and promising ideas. Among them...