Since the emergence of the New Left in the 1960s, which reoriented the focus of social reform away from its historical roots in Marxism and labor and toward what we have come to call (and criticize as) identity politics, the relationship between college-educated activists and union members, who often have dissimilar agendas, has hardly been seamless.
Two years later in Davis v. Washington (2006), it revisited the subject and answered a few of the unresolved issues, but again left much in doubt, apparently reorienting the focus of the testimonial definition from that of the party making the statement to that of the person receiving it.
In contrast, this collection seeks to "decenter" and "reorient" the scholarly focus, to borrow the editors' language, by handing the microphone to the cacophony of forgotten voices in the first-wave feminist movement – and it does so successfully.
In 1996 I became Director of the Institute and began to reorient the research focus of the Centre to stem cell biology, leading to the formation of the Institute for Stem Cell Research in 2000.
The usual bias-variance trade-offs neatly encapsulated in the traditional mean-square error loss need to make way for methods that reorient some of the focus toward assessing classification ability.
But unless the economy takes a miraculous turn in the next six months, he will have no choice but to make some wholesale changes not just to sack some hacks but reorient the White House's focus on reclaiming the political center.
In this Article, however, we seek to reorient the debate by focusing on the mid-stream desirability of dual-class structures in long-standing public companies.
How could these two men significantly change the dynamic among serious investors on the coasts to reorient their focus on cities, many of them suffering from the erosion of manufacturing, in the Rust Belt and elsewhere?
The first stage of relativism, then, is to reorient our focus in favor of the similarity to be found across value communities.
