Word: focused
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...large pool of candidates could conceivably alter the focus of the council. Two years ago the council was torn asunder with infighting over whether it should act as a forum for larger political issues or for issues concerning student life. While in the past, the council has addressed both matters, two years ago, the students decided to limit the body's scope to the College...
...uttered such a remark casually or might have let it pass without comment. Who has never spoken or thought an ethnic slur? Consideration of how often each of us regards someone on the basis of race will do a lot more to improve this campus than making Patterson the focus of anger...
...fact, informed sources have told TIME, the primary tipster or tipsters were connected with the rival presidential campaign of Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis. Aides to Missouri Congressman Richard Gephardt, another Democratic presidential hopeful and the focus of early suspicion, appear to have done little more than call the attention of reporters to an already published story after the uproar had begun. The Reagan White House, also a target of rumor and innuendo, denies any involvement...
...part of the Soviet space establishment will be in ample evidence this week as IKI and its charismatic director, Roald Sagdeyev, sponsor a three-day extravaganza of seminars and speeches celebrating the 30th anniversary of the launch of Sputnik 1 in 1957. Called Space Future Forum, it will focus on the topic of international cooperation in space. Some 500 scientific luminaries from around the world plan to attend...
This season preverbal toddlers turn up as characters on no fewer than three new series. The children are a fitting symbol for TV's discovery of yuppies and their world. Young married couples, coping with baby strollers and middle- of-the-night feedings, are a chief focus of two new family dramas, thirtysomething and A Year in the Life. Striving young professionals -- single, well appointed and usually living in New York City -- populate several others...