Word: unlearn
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...When the dynamics we see now in a state more divided than before, when processes are underway when people are taught and learn to dislike, distrust and hate, it's very hard to unlearn," Rudenstine said...
...Thomasons' status as Washington insiders has not helped them unlearn years of bad sitcom habits. In one episode Suzanne is invited to spend the night in the White House. She gets so excited that she jumps up and down on the bed in the Lincoln Bedroom and breaks it. To repair the damage, her staff sneaks into the White House carrying a new footboard disguised as a huge painting of a naked man. By the time Jamie Farr (Corporal Max Klinger from M*A*S*H) shows up in a dress, you just want to send these tan, happy people...
...story illustrates two phenomena: how Palestinians automatically blame Israel for trouble of any kind, and how they are beginning to unlearn the reflex that has become so deeply ingrained. Says Sa'eb Erakat, a leading P.L.O. figure in Jericho: "It is a huge transition that we must make in our mentality...
...changes necessary to successfully manage a culturally diverse work force often scare the daylights out of even the best-intentioned executives. Many find themselves for the first time adrift in uncharted territory. Workers don't follow familiar codes of behavior. Bosses must rethink the way they evaluate people and unlearn habits that can alienate or confuse employees from different backgrounds...
...mission to fight poverty in the U.S., it dispatched Delma Soto-Larsen to start a self-employment project in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. She has an M.B.A. and has worked for Citibank and Chemical Bank, but her real education began when Accion sent her to Colombia to unlearn all that she had been taught. "You're doing everything that all the books tell you not to do," she says. "You're making loans to people who can't prove that they can pay them back." In Colombia she saw dozens of people, some of them illiterate, borrowing money, using...