Word: redirecting
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...such "redirect," Sophomore Susan Evans, 19, says she likes U.C.S.C. and believes the professors "bend over backward" to help their students. She wants to graduate from Berkeley, though, because of its prestige. But redirected Berkeley Applicant Emily Buchbinder, 18 plans to stay at Santa Cruz, because, she believes, it has a better program in her major, politics. "I'm definitely glad I came here," she says. "I feel I belong, and I don't think I would have felt that way if I had gone to Berkeley...
This is not to say that The Magic Labyrinth is quite the classic it might have been. Like many another puzzlemaker, Philip José Farmer has trouble with his ultimate revelation. The idea of a highly advanced society using its unearthly powers to redirect humanity is neither especially new (2001 hints at a similar solution) nor appropriate. Ten-year followers of the Riverworld are likely to feel that they have crossed deserts, scaled mountains and battled hostile tribesmen for a potty message: Farmer's El Dorado looks suspiciously like Hoboken...
...John Dewey, and the disciple adheres to the master's dictum: human freedoms can be extended only by the arts of intelligence. In Philosophy and Public Policy, that intelligence oscillates between civility and perversity. "The Hero in History" summarizes his brilliant division of the "event-making" men who redirect history (Lenin, Peter the Great) and "eventful" men (Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman) who are overtaken by circumstance. Yet his call for a corrective to the country's present antiheroic mood is simply an "intelligent political participation on the part of citizens"-a phrase indistinguishable from November editorials...
...Cambridge City Council last night instructed the city's Retirement Board and other city officials to identify city investments in companies doing business in South Africa and to suggest ways to "redirect" those investments...
McManus said he found "quite a few" employees who were not trained to deal with asbestos, but added that Buildings and Grounds informed him they would redirect their asbestos training program to include all Buildings and Grounds employees...