Word: focused
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ministers of state--lies a small, burgundy leather-bound book that, so far as I can tell, does not appear in the main card catalogue or the DUC. On one of my many solitary trips to "C" West this semester, I discovered this tiny volume which eventually became the focus for a portion of my senior thesis...
...this narrow focus lie both the greatest weaknesses and strengths of Mating Birds. The novel begins, "In a few days I am to die," but the common 20th century technique of telling a story from the end is not carried off with particular novelty or innovation. So far as contemporary novels go, the plot is largely predictable. It follows the protagonist, Sibiya, from a Zula reservation to his enrollment in school, to expulsion after participation in anti-apartheid riots, to his progressive obsession with Veronica at a beach, to forbidden copulation in her bungalow, to discovery, trial and sentencing. There...
Assessment techniques have been the focus of persistent debate among educators. Until recently many experts believed that the broad objectives proposed by assessment advocates were unrealistic with current research tools. "To study how well students are being educated you need a huge amount of data," said Kenneth C. Green, associate director of UCLA's Cooperative Institutional Research Program (CIRP...
...channels to catch a Miller spot, which proudly advertised: "Miller's Made The American Way." This really seemed weird. Why do some marketeers invent strange foreign-sounding names like Frusen Gladje when their products are such American staples as ice cream, while other enterprising capitalists like the Miller people focus on their product's domestic origin? And why do this for beer, when it is generally acknowledged that Bavaria is the beer capital of the known universe...
...focus" of the OIT came about as the University slowly recognized the need for a "leadership role from a centralized position which can look across the entire landscape" of Harvard, said Ronald L. Orcutt, associate director in charge of planning...