Word: focused
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...President has added a second hearing aid in the past year or so. He uses three combinations for his eyes: hard contact lenses for normal activities, half glasses over the contacts for reading, and a single contact lens (left eye) for giving speeches on podiums where he needs to focus on the audience and the TelePrompTer at the same time. Reagan still has his suits made with buttons on the flies. He refuses to wear makeup for television. He pumps iron every day. He rides a horse when he can. His favorite story is his old surreal barnyard parable regarding...
...celebrated speech earlier this year, Robb, a son-in-law of Lyndon Johnson, attacked the Democrats' traditional focus on racism as the cause of black poverty and on welfare programs as a way to alleviate it. At last week's session he again charged that the welfare system "may be subsidizing the spread of self-destructive behavior in our poor communities...
Researchers focus instead on basic scientific study, and they receive industry support because "they are leaders in their field and companies hope for rare basic findings that will give them a window on current science and help them target internal research resources more effectively," Brinton said...
...private largesse, not just at home but abroad. Last year Americans sent more than $2 billion in private donations to the peoples of foreign countries. The Rockefeller Foundation alone will spend up to $300 million over the next five years to promote economic development in Third World countries and focus on politically controversial goals like fostering contraception. "Because philanthropy is not concerned with election returns or stockholders, we see ourselves deliberately moving into things that government and business are not picking up," says Rockefeller Foundation Vice President Kenneth Prewitt. In America, charity is not just the fruit of compassion...
...There are plenty of books about Harvard. Nowhere else can the class of 1986 find a personal record of their class memories. As I hear comments on the "Three Hundred Fifty" from my senior friends who will be leaving me tomorrow, I hear complaints that their book doesn't focus on them, but on an institution that has countless publications about its history already...