Word: reassessments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Neill proclaims, "Whatever you could say about his methods, his heart was always in the right place. One winter he called up Filene's, a major department store, and said to the owner, 'I need 5,000 sweaters this afternoon. And by the way, it's time to reassess your property.' Curley got the sweaters, which went to the poor people of Boston...
...this Administration," one official told the Wall Street Journal. But no publication had ever fingered him as the source for a specific story until Newsweek decided that his accusations against Congress warranted such a disclosure. "When a guy lies on national television, at that point you have to reassess the rules," said Newsweek's media writer Jonathan Alter. "Given these unusual circumstances, we felt an obligation to point out to our readers that North himself was a frequent source of Administration leaks," said Editor in Chief Richard Smith, who decided to run the story over objections from the magazine...
...People haven't considered the larger social and psychological attitudes affected by the AIDS epidemic," Brandt says. Coping with it effectively will "require people to reassess their traditional ideas about homosexuality," he adds...
Keohane said, however, that the administration's response is based on the understanding that the protest is directed specifically at the trustee meeting and is only for a short time. "If it becomes more indefinite, we will have to reassess our position," she said...
...assumptions. Both the Titanic and Hindenberg disasters, for example, gave lie to the notion that men had completely conquered the elements of sea and air. In the same way Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) is now shaking our faith in our ability to control disease. If we cannot realistically reassess the role of sickness in our-lives, we will be as doomed as those ill-fated passengers...