Word: focused
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...focus on one's personal life will have a "chilling effect on people who want to enter public life," said State Sen. Thomas P. White (D-Worchester). "It will inhabit the performance and the ability for us to do our duties today," he said...
...main focus is on Penn," Harvard Tri-Captain Kate Felsen said, "but it's always great to upset a team like UConn. The key is to score early and set the pace of the game...
Nowhere is danger more obvious than in the meat-packing industry, which will be the focus this week of congressional hearings on its safety practices. AFL- CIO officials estimate that more than one-third of the nation's 175,000 packinghouse workers -- 160 victims each day -- will suffer a serious injury or illness this year. Because meat-packing employees must work swiftly with sharp knives and cleavers, severe cuts and fractures are common. So is carpal- tunnel syndrome, a painful wrist condition caused by a repetitive chopping motion that swells tendons, pinches nerves and sometimes requires corrective surgery. Many workers...
...that he would not only mix church and state but also impose a cross of his special design on society. Robertson complains that the press fixates on his religious views instead of his whole record. "What we have to do," argues his communications director, Connie Snapp, "is change the focus . . . let people know the whole Pat Robertson story...
...happen here." He referred to the astonishing Soviet decision to let three Democratic Congressmen prowl for four hours through the secret radar facility near Krasnoyarsk in Siberia. The Kremlin permitted the lawmakers and a few aides to snap 1,000 photographs inside the facility, which has been the focus of U.S. charges that the Soviets are violating the 1972 treaty limiting antiballistic missile systems. Predictably, the visit served to intensify debate in Washington about Soviet intentions...