Word: focused
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...situation was brought into fresh focus last month when the New England Journal of Medicine reported significant falloffs in minority medical-school attendance since the civil rights fervor of a decade ago. In 1974 minority enrollment peaked at 10%, with blacks hitting a high of 7.5%. By 1983 minorities had slipped to 9.7%, blacks to 6.8%. A similar situation exists in some law schools...
...vaguely defined "international forum" as an inducement for Jordan's King Hussein to begin face-to-face peace negotiations. As a result of his domestic victory, Peres is increasingly confident that the moment for peace talks is virtually at hand. Says a Peres aide: "There's really an obsessive focus now on how to get to the peace table...
Although conducted in group sessions, training in confidence will be tailored to each student's need. "Whatever a student brings that he's having trouble doing, that's what we'll focus on and help him overcome," Pilgrim said...
Calling itself the Cetacean Society, the new organization held its introductory meeting last night. Group organizer Paul J. Psychas '86, a longtime environmental lobbyist, said the society will initially focus on saving the right whale, which has an important feeding and breeding ground off Cape...
Publicity is also a main focus of Fish's present efforts here in the United States. He sees good p.r. enabling the program to "seek additional corporate sponsors as an appealing investment." Corporations must believe that "it [the program] is a worthwhile thing rather than just a dollar-to-dollar payback investment...