Word: focal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Focal point of Alaskans' frustrations has been the San Francisco-based Sierra Club, which is the state's most successful conservation group. Although the club was not a party to the suit that has held up construction of the pipeline for four years, its aggressive attitude and legal success in southeastern Alaska have caused it, according to Sierra Staffer Jack Hession, "to catch the flak for everybody." Among its recent achievements: forcing logging companies to file environmental impact statements before they can cut trees in remote areas of the Tongass National Forest, delaying construction of several highways...
...construction man, bought a side of beef in company with some neighbors and has been canning her own fruit. "It's unsettling," she said last week while preparing to make sauerkraut for the first time in her life. "All of a sudden, eating has become sort of a focal point, and I think that...
...gets a standard site with water and electricity. For oak trees and a sewage hookup, the fee runs $2 more. The park attempts to re-create the spirit of the Butterfield stagecoach days with hay rides, an old-fashioned swimming hole, community cookouts and country-music shows. The focal point is an old Wild West village; on Sunday, church services are held in the Jemu saloon, with the obligatory nude paintings over the bar turned toward the wall...
...save Hunt Hall and eliminate that other, proximate scourge of the skyline? A more ample and challenging site would certainly be provided thereby. A memorial auditorium could be incorporated in a dormitory design and, beyond the urban design possibilities, a magnificent opportunity to create a unifying architectural focal point would present itself. James...
...much as he could with so much competition from the rest of the crew. But Raphael Cohen, in his dual role as the Man and particularly as mild-mannered reporter Clark Kent, is still a strong actor. Obviously, the two poses require completely opposite attitudes. Superman is the focal point of everybody's existence: Lois adores him, the populace sing his praises daily, while a jealous scientist and a columnist for The Daily Planet hate him and drive the plot with their attempts to ruin him. Cohen's super-stance is perfect: standing tall, legs apart, fists on hips...