Word: focused
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...article of August 7, "The Left's Adoption of States' Rights," David Barron correctly observes that "states' rights" debates too often focus on the doctrine of states' rights, and not on the substance of the specific issues at hand. But Barron goes down that same road, and ends up condemning at legal doctrine, rather than the odious policy stands. that have sometimes hidden behind that doctrine...
...staked his credibility on his claim that he had not known that his NSC staff had arranged to divert profits to the contras. Yet the fine focus on this point obscured a broader one: any act so potentially destructive to the President's management of foreign policy should not have been allowed to escape his attention...
Perhaps it is not the job of the media to focus public attention on those who try to reconcile their faith in God with their knowledge of evolution. Any such balance between the faith in the unseen and the tangible workings of the outside world is obviously delicate and personal...
...Justice Department, the U.S. Postal Service and the Internal Revenue Service pored over mountains of the ministry's financial records at its headquarters in Fort Mill, S.C. The officials were readying material for a federal grand jury hearing, scheduled to begin in Charlotte, N.C., on Aug. 17. The focus, according to sources close to the investigation: the possibility of criminal tax fraud, wire fraud and mail fraud by Jim Bakker and other PTL leaders who have left the ministry since Falwell took over...
Ollie's rise has made grumpy those for whom the past month of conservative discomfiture had been a time of glee. They are dismayed that the country will not focus on important matters, say, on whether the presidential finding authorizing the Israeli second arms shipment was in compliance with the Hughes-Ryan amendment. Such matters, often referred to as the "facts," are overlooked while the nation takes in Ollie's hair, his uniform, his smile, his glint, his hound-dog eyes and his patriotic speeches. Millions swoon. The sophisticates despair...