Word: rethinking
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Carter foreign policy advisers and their would-be successors in the Reagan camp are going to have to rethink their plans for protecting the security of the Persian Gulf. Both Carter and Reagan have elaborate strategies for deterring direct Soviet military intervention. But as recent weeks have shown, the more immediate threat is indigenous turmoil. Neither presidential candidate-nor anyone else, for that matter-has an answer to that problem or to the encroachment of Soviet diplomacy, such as the friendship treaty with Syria that Presidents Leonid Brezhnev and Hafez Assad signed last week...
Dismissing the neoconservative approach as "too angry" and unconstructive, Yankelovich counseled liberals not to "give up" or to fight for outdated liberal programs, but to "regroup and rethink" to find new means for solving traditional liberal goals like social welfare and national growth, which "are as valid as ever...
...helping the President keep his own commitment to women's issues" (Presidential adviser Sarah Weddington). In his desire to make all those interviews worth his time, Broder seems to have suffered a touch of the Elizabeth Drew disease: the uncontrollable urge simply to retype rather than rethink one's notes...
...court noted for its fragmentation and diversity, Stevens is the extreme case, a personal loner and a legal maverick. Yet he has won the respect of the other Justices for his originality and ability to find new angles on old ideas (he once casually asked a clerk to "rethink" the history and meaning of the 14th Amendment's equal protection clause). Says one of his colleagues: "If there is any conceivable new way to approach a case or a legal issue, he'll find...
While he rejects theory for theory's sake, Bowersock says he sees benefit in the theoretical basis for the Core's structure because it encourages professor to rethink what they are teaching. "You can't just walk up to a professor and tell him to develop a course--you need a structure to provide the impetus," he explains...