Word: focus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Willie hopes to focus the institute on his model of "controlled choice" in school desegregation, an innovative system in which families are allowed greater latitude in choosing the schools which their children will attend. Traditional school desegregation plans rely on mandatory student assignment to achieve racial balance...
...Race was expected to be a dominant preoccupation in Virginia, where Democratic Lieut. Governor Douglas Wilder is seeking to become the nation's first elected black Governor. But while it may never be far from voters' minds, the race issue has failed to materialize, allowing Wilder to keep the focus on the antiabortion views of his Republican opponent, Marshall Coleman...
...hard to cover all the Hispanic markets because they are so different," says Joel Russell, former senior editor of Hispanic Business. "A publication has to have one article about Chicanos in Texas, one about Cubans in Florida, one about Puerto Ricans in New York. It's too nebulous a focus...
Many Hispanic journalists with established careers in the so-called mainstream press are attracted to these ventures because of the opportunity to focus exclusively on the Latino community. Guillermo Martinez, a Cuban who was senior editor of the Miami Herald, left to join Univision, where he heads the news department. Univision anchorwoman and producer Teresa Rodriguez has turned down offers from Good Morning, America and two NBC affiliates, preferring to cover Hispanic America in depth...
...book uses this theoretical framework to focus on what has happened in the semiconductor industry. In particular, Gilder's analysis attacks the conventional view that the U.S. blundered in letting Japan take over the market for mass-produced memory chips. As he points out, the key component for a computer is not hardware but software, the instructions that make the machine work. When programs like Lotus 1-2-3 made the personal computer a runaway success in the early 1980s, IBM and other firms made a strategic decision to let Japan supply the demand for memory chips that U.S. chipmakers...