Word: reinvent
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Much of the credit for this remarkable turnabout belongs to Transportation Secretary Goldschmidt. Carter's first Transportation Secretary, Brock Adams, sternly ordered Detroit to "reinvent" the automobile, and last April the President publicly berated industry leaders for stubbornly refusing to make small cars. But Goldschmidt, the former mayor of Portland, Ore., took the automakers' problems seriously and helped swing Administration opinion round. Prompted by the Government's loan guarantee to Chrysler, Goldschmidt embarked on a long-term study that convinced him the Government simply must help an industry that provides one-sixth of the nation...
...brethren. "He's thought it important to say what's on his mind, whether it's persuasive or not," observes Yale Law Professor Paul Gewirtz. "That irritates some Justices." Adds Georgetown Law Professor Dennis Hutchinson: "He seemed prepared in many cases to, if not exactly reinvent the wheel, then at least reinterpret it. In every major case, he has to have his own little John Paul Stevens theory...