Word: focused
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Opponents of the law mistakenly focus on the act of buckling up instead of its context. A seat belt doesn't just protect the individual who wears it; its use means that the driver is taking seriously the privilege of driving and its concomitant responsibility. A mandatory seat belt law, in this sense, is like a speed limit...
...NEXT STAGE of town-gown cooperation we ought to seek and use a new mechanism which would allow more of Harvard's creative problem-solving ability to focus on Cambridge...
...provide sharp images of most bacteria but cannot distinguish anything smaller than about eight-millionths of an inch -- the tiniest bacteria, for example -- because the wavelength of visible light, which is in the hundred-thousandth of an inch range, is too long. Ruska found that a magnetic coil could focus electrons, which have a wavelength that is roughly 100,000 times shorter. Substituting magnets for lenses and electrons for light, he built his first electron microscope. Improved versions, by providing images of viruses and even large molecules, have revolutionized such disparate fields as biology and electronics...
While both politicians and the press have been quick to remind New Yorkers that substance abuse was the tragedy's principal cause, they have chosen to focus on Ms. Steel's ostensible abuse of alcohol instead of the behavior of the driver who struck her down. After all, she used a fake i.d. to buy drinks at Dorian's Red Hand, the same bar that Jennifer Dawn Levin visited on the night of her gruesome murder two months...
...energies were being divided between the kids and the show," Shannon says, adding that the group's main focus is on the children...