Word: focused
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Japanese researchers are pursuing more than 100 new applications for fuzzy logic. Nissan has patented fuzzy auto transmission and antiskid braking , systems. Yamaichi Securities has introduced a fuzzy stock-market investment program for signaling shifts in market sentiment. Canon is working on a fuzzy auto-focus camera. Matsushita has delivered a fuzzy automobile-traffic controller, and is about to unveil a fuzzy shower system that adjusts to changes in water temperature to prevent morning scaldings. And in the strongest endorsement of the technology to date, the Ministry of International Trade and Industry opened the Laboratory for International Fuzzy Engineering Research...
NOVICK, however, manages to keep the day-to-day details from dominating the text, helping the reader focus instead on the broader themes of Holmes' life. In particular, he emphasizes the path of Holmes' legal ideas: how they formed in his college and war days, grew during his early legal experience and blossomed into a fascinating ideology that has since been incorporated into our common...
With a crucial tournament coming up this weekend in Providence, R.I., the Crimson knew it would be difficult to get motivated for the Engineers. Yet Harvard maintained its focus and played what may turn out to be a perfect tune-up for tourney matches against highly-ranked squads like Stanford and Arkansas...
...added that faculty members tend to focus closely on their own courses and pay less attention to the breadth of department offerings...
What did the movie actually do? Exactly what Spike Lee, in countless interviews, has said he wanted it to do--it made people think. New York's attention was now focused on the state of racial relations in the city, but the focus sometimes clouded the heart of the issue and exaggerated its most sensational effects...