Word: focus
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...Khazei ’83, who has spent significant time and resources here on campus, is Harvard’s favorite son. However, we actually find Khazei’s preoccupation with Harvard to be curious. In an election to represent all of Massachusetts, a candidate should probably not focus so much on a university whose students are largely not constituents...
According to Moore, a personal emphasis on education led him to focus on Ivy League schools. He said that his final decision came down to either Cornell or Harvard, two basketball programs “headed in the right direction.” In addition to Harvard’s location and name recognition, Moore cited the chance to “win the Ivy League for the first time in Harvard’s history, to do something that had never been done before,” as a major factor in his choice...
Though it would be a major boost for the team if it was to win this weekend’s set, the Crimson is not approaching Minnesota differently than it has any other team this season. The focus of its practice and strategy is to play the game out to its full potential, approaching every team it faces as if it were its biggest competition...
Though it would be a major boost for the team if it was to win this weekend’s set, the Crimson is not approaching Minnesota differently than it has any other team this season. The focus of its practice and strategy is to play the game out to its full potential, approaching every team it faces as if it were its biggest competition...
...Department of Education, sensitive to such criticisms as well as to the years-long frustration with No Child Left Behind's focus on testing, is hoping to use turnarounds to place the focus more on "growth models," in which the most important measurement is not a single year's test score but rather whether students are improving from year to year. (Currently, NCLB requires states to simply take a snapshot of students based on their year-end standardized test scores, as opposed to tracking advancement over time...