Word: focused
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...American Society of Law and Medicine's symposium, entitled "AIDS: A Modern `Plague'?" will focus on the medical, legal and public policy issues surrounding the disease. Yesterday's events were televised and shown at 200 hospitals nationwide...
...roads in resolving this matter, most agree, eventually lead back to the church. "The primary focus at this point should be on the church and the kind of profit it wants to make," Shattuck says...
...then does Titmuss turn out to be the beneficiary of Simeon's estate? The answer proves every bit as intriguing as the preparations that lead up to it. For Mortimer has attempted nothing less than a long case history of his native land, post-1945. Behind the narrow focus on the imaginary Rapstone and its inhabitants, larger events are disclosed: sugar rationing after the war, ban- the-bomb marches during the edgy '50s, the rise of swinging London, the Profumo scandal, strikes, strife and the sinking of traditions in a new tide of commercialism. The fate of the Swan...
...deceptive, backlash book." Erica Jong has called it the kind of work that "could start a revolution" and "serve as blueprint for a new era of feminist activism." Those heated reactions were only a small part of a new controversy slowly beginning to churn in U.S. feminist circles. Its focus: a newly published 461-page study that examines why, despite the furor of the feminist revolution in the '60s and '70s, women in the U.S. labor force remain substantially poorer than their West European counterparts. The book's most startling claim: the feminist movement itself may be responsible for some...
...focus the question by meditating upon the 2,700 pairs of shoes that Imelda Marcos left behind in Malacanang Palace. A person's vision may cloud a little as he tries to peer into the shadows of Swiss bank vaults or into the double-bottomed luggage of the Marcos real estate deals. But the image of the 5,400 shoes of Imelda Marcos makes the metaphysics vivid...