Word: focus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Liem--a committee member of the Harvard Foundation--says he will not use his position to focus solely on minority issues...
Administrators say the plan, revealed last fall would lessen the faculty office space crunch and provide a focus for undergraduate life, although some students remain skeptical...
Under his curatorship, the Nieman Foundation--which offers prominent journalists the chance to study at Harvard free from the pressures of deadlines--broadened its international focus, offering fellowships to writers from Latin America, China and South Africa...
Hetty Liem, a full-time genetic engineer at Cambridge-based Genzyne, Inc., says she will be a "night person" around Dunster this semester. She says she will focus on house social activities rather than academic advising this year...
...here the disagreement over the means and ends of a pluralist community comes to a sharp focus. Like the battle between the cultural right and left, with the literary or historical canon somehow held ransom between the two, the question over minority hiring seems to revolve around the perceived "lowering of standards" needed to diversify the faculty. Just who sets--and who judges--the standards of course is the most difficult question of all to answer. In a pluralist society, what are the certainties...