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...appeal to a somewhat broader readership. With certain changes in administrative organization, they believe the Advocate may surmount the financial troubles that have proved so debilitating in the past. And by attempting to draw more people into the building itself, they hope to help it become more of a focal point for the Harvard literary community...
...among women's for "natural" childbirth and for more patient participation in the delivery process, has sparked a large proportion of the complaints against UHS. Because the University service has only two gynecologists available to women on the Harvard health plan, the matter of patient choice is also a focal point in the larger debate over the quality of campus treatment...
...bluntly if he objected to our producing a U.S. proposal at all. He answered that he did indeed object, that it was a bad idea. This was a belated admission of an attitude that had become apparent to us all. Begin said that any U.S. plan would become the focal point of dissension and disagreement after we adjourned from Camp David, and that there was no likelihood of its being accepted by either the Israelis or the Arabs. Those who would disagree with individual parts of the proposal would take out their displeasure on the U.S., which might turn...
There was no question where the focal point of any conflict between the armies of the two great power blocs would lie. It would be in the Federal Republic of Germany, where the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany, largely stationed in what was known as the German Democratic Republic (GDR), faced the considerably weaker NATO forces ... It was in the GDR that the Warsaw Pact was even now staging maneuvers of impressive size, so large as to arouse at first strong suspicion in the West, and then to confirm, that this was really mobilization .. . The maneuvers had been notified...
Psychotherapist Herships changed his mind about candor. He was involved with a woman while on vacation in Montreal. After he told her, "herpes became the focal point for our relationship. It made her anxious. It made me anxious. It diminished the experience." His solution: if you are not having an attack of herpes at the time, then don't tell, because the risk of transmission...