Word: focused
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...past year, Venezuela's gross national product, which rose 5.8% in 1963, increased by more than 7%. Oil production, the economy's overwhelming factor, climbed almost 5%, farm production 7%, manufacturing 11%, mining 25%, and construction a spectacular 75%. As the focus of the boom, Caracas is beginning to look like a Monopoly board near the end of a hot game. On Avenida Francisco Miranda, the Caracas branches of Balmain and Cartier, once exclusive hangouts for Venezuela's big rich, now thrive on a growing middle-class trade...
King is attempting to focus national attention on Selma and on the planned march for Sunday from that city to Montgomery. For this reason, SCLC has opposed all recent demonstrations in Montgomery, except for the march held yesterday...
...many worlds, and his sensibility and intelligence--both prodigious--are fragmented. His mind is made up of many unconnected facets and regions, and it gleans insights as a piece of quartz catches the sun--in glints and flashes. All of his writing seems to me a Promethean effort to focus these glints and flashes into steady ray. When he succeeds, the results will be overwhelming, for they will represent that rare synthesis of intelligence and experience which marks the work of all significant social scientists and critics...
Hoffmann's distaste for super-specialization was not as acceptable five years ago as it is today. And even those who agreed with him were not unanimous in applauding the new program. Many wished that he and his colleagues would instead focus all their efforts on reforming the departments 'from within...
...paper's eight-column page has been reduced to five, its 7½-point type enlarged to nine point. Black column rules have been removed, leaving wide swatches of white space. A pair of capsule news columns have been added. "Focus," appearing daily in the left-hand column of the front page, will summarize trends in politics, business, sports, science and the arts; "The News-Briefly," which appears on page 2, will capsule the day's events. With the addition of twelve reporters and some editorial shifts, Canham expects staffers to be freer than ever to write stories...