Word: focus
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...Harvard College Women’s Center, and has worked to increase opportunities and services for students involved in extracurricular activities. “I think having an Associate Dean of Student Life and Activities is a very big accomplishment for a school that had previously not given much focus to student life,” Kidd said. Campus Life Fellow Jason B. McCoy ’08 said that Kidd will be strongly missed in the Student Life and Activities Office, noting that she strikes the perfect balance between humor and pragmatism. “She?...
...sensual Latin number comes first, and Oppenheimer takes her position, intense focus evident on her face. She joins her partner and sways to the beat...
...wake of the recent economic downturn, Scott said this act will support AmeriCorps’ focus on five pressing issues—educational achievement, health care access, clean energy, support of veterans, and economic opportunities...
...extra pound of flesh," says Norman Ornstein, a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. "Independents, including those who drifted over from the GOP because of their unhappiness with the rightward turn of the party - and its incompetence - are not likely to resonate to attacks, and most voters want a focus on problem-solving, meaning looking to today and tomorrow, not yesterday...
...Alan Soh, a thirtysomething entrepreneur who runs his own six-person interior design firm, says his firm is coping too despite being closely tied to the recession-wracked construction industry. By temporarily switching his focus to aging buildings, where the volume is lower and margins are thinner, "I've managed to keep our business going," he says. Soh is guardedly optimistic about the future. "There are eight to nine thousand new [apartment] units being finished off this year and they're all going to need lighting fixtures and painting work," he says, which is one reason why he hasn?...