Word: rethink
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...cares? I think the nature of leadership and management and government must become a political issue. These are issues of values, they're issues of culture and they should be in the political arena. And I think people will respond to that. Public discussion is crucial--it makes people rethink their old assumptions. It makes them see something that is part of their daily experience but they don't usually think about. People assume this is all a technical matter...
Vietnam did not destroy our national purpose. But it did severely undermine some of our most basic assumptions by demonstrating the pragmatic consequences of these beliefs. Vietnam has forced us to reconsider out values, to reexamine the role we wish to play in the world community, and to rethink the image we want to project to other people. This is not a matter of isolationsism vs. activism. but of coming to grips with the understanding that we cannot unilaterally impose our will throughout the world, that other cultures and nations deserve our respect, and that self-interest is not always...
...Iranian oil cutoff and ever higher OPEC prices have raised the possibility of still further energy action. "It is clear that we must embark on new initiatives in all sectors and rethink what is possible," says Deputy Energy Secretary John Sawhill. He adds that the Administration is considering ways to boost gasohol production, force utilities to use more coal and other oil conservation measures. Such proposals would save as much as 600,000 bbl. of oil per day; up to now, the U.S. has been importing some 700.000 bbl. daily from Iran...
...transcendent leaders, but on a lower level there is Gloria Steinem, an articulate and thoughtful representative of the women's movement. Andy Young has stirred up controversy; if you're not getting into trouble, you're not breaking new ground or asking people to rethink old notions...
...among others, as if a university were like a business corporation or a labor union. It is a mission special to itself to challenge the assumptions of our daily routine, including the assumptions that make possible specializations in society and even in the university. To challenge is to rethink, and rethinking requires mastery of the traditions of thought...