Word: focused
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...separatist Moro National Liberation Front, has headed the Philippine Muslims' struggle for independence for the past 14 years from self-imposed exile in the Middle East. Following a two-hour meeting in a heavily guarded Roman Catholic convent, the two leaders agreed to hold talks that are expected to focus on Muslim autonomy in the south. Aquino told Misuari at one point, "Faith has brought me here." Referring to his exile, Misuari declared, "I traveled 7,000 miles . . . to give peace a chance...
During most of the show, these screens were the focus of the crowd's attention, as the performers on stage appeared only slightly larger than ants. But during the "Fair Harvard" broadcast, the words were obscured by fountains, which sprayed water high in the air, blocking the audience's view...
...anything interesting has ever happened at Harvard, it seems to have been systematically excised from this bland account. Historians generally tend to focus on the significance of periods of upheaval, but these essays emphasize the placid progress of an educational institution with a shifting population of faceless students and teachers. Student riots are glossed over or ignored. Wartime turbulence is omitted. Conspicuously absent is any mention of the most recent Harvard crisis of student demonstrations in the '60's. Clearly, such a short book cannot include every significant event in the University's past, but the lack of any disscussion...
Heimert, Cabot Professor of American Literature, said he also thought Harvard had lost some of its focus. "There used to be a sense on the part of the faculty and the students that they were engaged in a common emterprise and this enterprise had a specific purpose," he said...
...tests causes us to focus primarily on two types of learning, linguistic and mathematical skills," Gardner warned, the narrow focus results in an "individually centered curriculum," tailor-made for IQ tests...