Word: focused
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...Pittsburgh, as in other large urban areas, educators and urban planners have begun to focus attention on the need for relating school construction to the city's other facilities and activities. We propose that Pittsburgh's five Education Centers be located in newly designed urban centers which would constitute an important part of the city's renewal. These urban centers would be linked together by rapid transit and super highways and would share many of the unique resources of the city. But each urban center should be able to serve many of the diverse needs of a substantial segment...
Only by making the core curriculum a coordinated teaching exercise under continuous surveillance and revision by an appropriate body of the faculty do we think that the focus of the teaching can be kept on topics pertinent to the training of physicians. Only in this way, in turn, do we think that we can avoid undue cluttering of the curriculum with factual details. It is not our intent to belittle facts; the biological sciences unfortunately have not yet achieved broad generalizing concepts which reduce have not yet achieved broad generalizing concepts which reduce the need to know facts. We make...
...Wendell Phillips, paleontologist, is rather like a mirage on one of the Arabian deserts that he frequents. He looks too good to be true and he never quite comes into focus. By his own account, he has an apartment in Hawaii that is "the most beautiful in the world." He also says he has the world's largest library in South Arabia, owns part of a large apartment complex in Sacramento. He neither smokes nor drinks, but he is such a prodigious dancer that in his own words, "I have to take young 17-and 18-year-old girls...
...Bureau of Drug Abuse Control, established last May, will focus its investigations on traffic in "pep pills" and barbiturates, and on manufacture of LSD in college laboratories...
...Moreover, President Marcos continued, "it is only American military power that is acceptable in Asia and great enough to deter Communist China's aggressive tendencies." Pointedly, he recalled that the U.S. was deeply involved in Asia for more than half a century before World War I returned its focus to Europe. 'The U.S.," he said, "was a Pacific power long before it was an Atlantic power...