Word: reorienting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...push it into a higher orbit-or, if that is not possible, to help direct the shaky space station through a fiery, yet safe descent into a remote area of the ocean. Two weeks ago controllers again used Skylab's altitude thrusters and gyros in another attempt to reorient the ship. The maneuver appeared to work, at least for the time being. At week's end space officials were still watching, waiting and keeping their fingers firmly crossed as the unmanned space laboratory streaked across the sky above them...
...regardless of how Harvard manages to reorient Washington's desires, with the health management course there seems to be little doubt that society comes out ahead of the Harvard-Washington tug of war. The educators involved in the program are readying the two courses, one on occupational health and safety to be given in January, and another on health policy management and policy-making in February. The February course's objective is to show administrators how costs can be cut and care improved in hospitals. The January program gives the administrators a share of the expertise in legislating against pollution...
...judging from both the amount of time he has spent here and his pronouncements, von Stade likes Harvard the way it is. "I wouldn't like to see the University reorient itself in any significant way," he says. "I wouldn't like to see it turn out a lot of Democrats or a lot of Republicans--certainly...
...programs are two of seven recommendations made by the faculty's Committee on Academic Policy in an effort to consolidate the school's 22 doctoral programs and reorient its two master's programs...