Word: focused
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...recruiting campaigns carried out by law firms each year. "Every fall there is a huge influx of corporate law recruiters who ply students with fancy dinners and offers of free interviewing trips all over the country," says Schwarz. "This institution pervades the atmosphere of the Law School, bringing the focus of the institution onto a future job, rather than learning how to be a lawyer...
Three cable packages will be offered to subscribers under the agreement: Neighborhood Net for $3.95 a month, will provide local programming and live coverage of municipal events; New England Focus for $6.95 a month will add several stations from other cities; Consumer's Choice for $10,95 a month, will offer 52 channels including MTV I and II, USA Network, Movietime and Nickelodeon...
While many faculty members at the Business School focus on entrepreneurship in "start-up companies," Kanter is more interested in large companies working to develop new ideas and technologies, said B-School spokesman James E. Aisner...
...Bushwick section of Brooklyn. There was still a chance to pull the neighborhood back from disintegration. The center is credited for the beginnings of recovery. Mary Paul and Geraldine do not deny this, since it is demonstrably true. At the same time they are made visibly uncomfortable by any focus on themselves as individuals, and will, when so threatened, immediately draw one's attention to the others in the community and to their staff members, all of whom the sisters prize: Carol Heiney-Gonzalez, Maryanne Sabatino, Anna Nalevanko, Anita Cleary, John Kixmiller, who runs the after- school program...
...paradox of these pictures is that their visual crispness masks the complexity of their message. Avedon's ultrasharp focus seems to promise minute disclosures. His blank backgrounds suggest elemental truthfulness. If this is not a straightforward picture of the West, what could be? But those optical certainties are a tease. Avedon makes that explicit in the foreword to a recently published volume of these pictures (Abrams; $40). "A portrait photographer depends upon another person to complete his picture," he writes. "The subject imagined, which in a sense is me, must be discovered in someone else willing to take part...