Word: focal
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...hundred of police, was a fenced-in enclosure dubbed "the protest pit" by demonstrators. The police had planned to control demonstrators by giving them pit-time in 50-minute blocks. Media reports before had predicted the area would be the main battleground for the week's protests, the focal point of protest...
...this possibility did not deter Barak from carrying out his plan. Nevertheless, almost all the news media interpreted the withdrawal as a defeat for Israel and did not give a balanced view. With Israel located in a region that is the focal point of the three major religions, I guess Barak is damned if he does and damned if he doesn't. IVAN K. SCHULLER San Diego...
...Trinity ultimately defeated Harvard in the championship game, 8-1, but Harvard had re-established itself as the focal point of Ivy League squash. The team is losing Wyant and Lauer, but the remaining members of the top nine will return a year better...
...years past, the awarding of the Captain Jonathan Fay Prize, what had been Radcliffe's highest honor for a graduating woman, formed the focal point of the event...
...Sailor becomes the focal point of the story as the struggle to name him becomes a struggle for power. Ananda is recruited to reconstruct the man's head as Anil pieces together the man's past through the history of his bones. Everyone suspects that if his identity is revealed, the government will finally be shown responsible for the killings...