Word: rethink
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...Perot who embodies this anti-Establishment anger, while the Democratic challenger is suddenly relegated to an uncomfortable me-too role as the candidate offering change for the timid voters still loyal to the orthodoxies of two-party politics. As a longtime friend of Clinton puts it, "Bill has to rethink this race because Perot has taken some of the ground that he intended to occupy. But until now Bill has been too tired, and too occupied with the primaries, to rethink anything...
...instead of causing Harvard's gay community to rethink its way of life, the issue provoked a widespread mobilization of gay students and a protest at which two respected faculty members came out of the closet...
There is, in fact, no need for a crystal ball to envision the university of the 21st century. Bit by logical bit, it is taking shape already on dozens of U.S. campuses as administrators begin to rethink their goals in light of a cost crunch that, recession or no, promises only to grow worse. From Kansas' Sterling College to Ohio's Youngstown State, from the huge State University of New York system (total enrollment: more than 369,000 on 23 campuses) to tiny Alaska Pacific University in Anchorage (639 students), officials are deciding not only how to do the same...
During the great expansion that took place after World War II, American colleges and universities sought to be all things to all people. In the new age of austerity, schools are being forced to rethink their missions, decide what they can do best and -- in a form of academic triage -- abandon certain fields of learning to others. Rice University in Houston has often been called "the Harvard of the South" (although these days the motto should be reversed, claims its president, George Rupp). Rice has flourished by trying to recruit National Merit scholars, who constitute 40% of the class...
...need to rethink that case and relocate it in a new theoretical framework," said Lane. "We need a theory that encompassed the relation between home and work...