Word: rethink
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...those who lost big in the bear market, it's time to rethink everything, says Ginger Applegarth, president of Applegarth Advisory Group in Winchester, Mass. "If you are retired, it might mean you have to sell the vacation home or go back to work or try to start a business." There are lots of services healthy retirees can offer, such as helping those who aren't so healthy by doing chores or working as a handyman or gardener. "Baby-boomer children would be happy to pay someone to shop for their parents or check on them regularly," she notes. Other...
...admitted someone and then found out they murdered someone, we probably would rethink that case as well,” she said. “It is not proper for us to be enforcing or policing other institutions’ rules, but we are very concerned about the ethical behavior of students who might be Harvard students...
...Holocaust, Cambodia and Rwanda have all caused us to rethink the laws of war,” Ryan said. “My whole course is about trying to get beyond their very obvious dissimilarities...
...revamp the FBI and CIA. Richard Shelby, top Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee, says, "If a lot of information from the FBI, CIA, NSA and Immigration had been put together at a central place, they may have thwarted the attack of Sept. 11." Bush may have to rethink parts of his own management style to keep the system from breaking down again...
...view of the world and develop a more realistic perspective on the risks or obstacles they face. Patients suffering from social-anxiety disorder, for example, might see a group of people whispering at a party and assume the gossip is about them. A cognitive therapist would teach them to rethink that assumption. Some behavioral therapists question cognitive techniques, arguing--not without some justification--that a brain that was so receptive to reason wouldn't be all that anxious in the first place. Cognitive therapists dispute that idea, though some have begun incorporating behavior-modification techniques into their treatment...