Word: focus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...source," more and heavier U.S. weapons would be dispatched to Colombia, and more arms and men to Peru and Bolivia. In Colombia drug gangsters killed three officials last week: gunmen assassinated Senator Luis Carlos Galan, a leading presidential candidate; the Medellin provincial police chief, and a local judge. The focus of the U.S. effort, though, would be on Peru, where attempts to eradicate the coca crop have been stalled since February because of attacks by guerrillas and traffickers. Some 34 eradication workers have been killed in the Upper Huallaga Valley since 1983. In May a DEA agent, five State Department...
...well-orchestrated protests were more a publicity gesture than a serious attempt to impede lumbering operations. Forest rangers and police largely ignored the climbers. But they did manage to focus renewed public attention on an issue that has been simmering for years: logging of the nation's "old- growth" forests...
...America and organized labor are increasingly looking to a third party: the Federal Government. Several business and labor leaders are pushing for some type of national health plan in which everyone would automatically be insured. While a big-picture solution is still hazy, the problem is now in sharp focus: a debilitating financial drain on American workers, companies and the U.S. economy as a whole...
...work fine -- and lead a campaign to preserve the creature's habitat. "There is a utility in the concern for the giant panda," says the National Zoo's director Michael Robinson. "Pandas are relatively stupid and uninteresting animals. But they happen to be photogenic and appealing, and they help focus people's attention." Big animals need big swatches of habitat, and so in the process a lot of less sexy species are protected too. To save the African elephant requires saving the Serengeti. That means roughly 5,000 sq. mi. and, as it happens, 400 species of birds, maybe...
...Real estate in Cambridge is a bad word and I am the spokesman for people who disagree with rent control," Walsh said. "This year of politics is a focus year on rent control. I think you'll see a lot of bitterness in the campaign [for City Council] before it's over...