Word: focus
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...People love to focus on these polls, but they’re never right. The polls are just name recognition,” Khazei said in an interview Sunday...
With the advent of online CyberMonday sales and more extended Black Friday weekend deals, the focus of stores nationwide is now shifting from a one-day shopping splurge to a more drawn-out holiday shopping season, according to a Nov. 25 New York Times article. Some stores around the country are looking to increase revenue with more sales through the coming weeks...
...excellence of the university’s offerings. However, engaging in book-lending programs with other schools appears to be a less elegant solution to budgetary issues. The book-sharing system would diminish the immediate accessibility of texts and undermine the growth of a valuable academic resource. We should focus instead on acquiring texts so that they are accessible to students on demand, rather than participating in lending programs that open up competition for books to a wider audience and make the process of gaining access a book difficult. Rather than curtailing the Harvard College Library’s growth...
...Afghanistan is not nearly as vital to America's global interests as World War II was - and the Taliban's tyranny pales in comparison to that of the Third Reich. But while it's too simplistic to focus solely on the moral imperatives of the Afghan campaign, it would be just as shortsighted for Obama to ignore them altogether. History shows that Americans are far more willing to support a war that they believe is worthy of their ideals. If Obama hopes to rally the American people behind his strategy, his speech needs to convince them that...
...government's focus on Ebadi seems to be designed to hit her before she regains too much power as the thorniest critic in the government's side. But the seizure of her Nobel medal and the threats against her family seem poorly calculated. "The irony of all this is that such policies give Ms. Ebadi more prominence," says Farideh Farhi, an Iran expert at the University of Hawaii. "In effect they make her harassment itself the human-rights message that they are trying so hard to prevent her from expressing...