Word: rethinking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...shocked at the immature reasoning in Lacayo's piece. He suggests that we rethink society's position on adultery, which was "taboo just a few months ago." It is still taboo; it is still wrong. I don't care how many Presidents or Congressmen commit adultery. I can't stand this raising of "nonpartisanship" as if it were some kind of lofty goal more important than truth. Even if some of us fail at times, the goal still matters. ROBERT MCCORMICK Concord, Calif...
...around on trucks, they are invisible to cruise missiles; fighter-bombers would have to go hunting for them. Second, after the Tomahawks take their shots at the air defenses and command and communications centers in Kosovo, there is to be a pause of a few days to let Milosevic rethink his defiance. If he stands firm, will NATO have the political will to launch the second-stage attack, with hundreds of planes blasting military targets all over Kosovo and Serbia...
...general consensus was that Japan must deregulate its financial system, pay off bank debt and rethink its macroeconomic policy, Scott said...
Photography not only provided this century with two of the things it likes best--greater realism and superior fantasies--but also showed how deeply entwined they can be. Circa 1900, ambitious photographers aspired to pictures that resembled paintings. Then came modernism, which taught them to rethink the characteristics of their own medium. Sharp focus, accidental arrangements and the just-the-facts stuff that cameras provide became a new path to the supreme fictions of art. Of the pleasures cameras give us, the transfiguration of plain reality is the most indispensable. It implies that the world is more than it seems...
...find yourself stuck in some dingy hostel late in an Australian night miserably pounding out paragraphs about stultifying historical museums and bad restaurants, in a desperate attempt to meet deadline--stop. Sit back for a moment and rethink why you feel enslaved to a bunch of uptight Harvard kids trapped in a Cambridge office thousands of miles away, when Guatemala awaits; ask yourself again why you wanted to go to India or Ireland in the first place. Go for a beer, go to bed, go do anything rather than cutting and pasting your fun away, because you're supposed...