Word: focused
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...American SDI. We are making much greater progress than we anticipated. The barriers we saw to progress are crumbling. For one thing, we are making very great progress with being able to focus and project laser beams through conditions that used to distort them in the atmosphere. One reason this is expensive is that we are pursuing about five different methods of trying to destroy missiles outside the atmosphere. We are not working down one path and giving that up if it does not work. I think if the Soviets see that we are obdurate and not going...
...most important element in Always Coming Home is the autobiographical narrative of a woman called Stone Telling. Although her story takes up roughly one-fifth of the book, it provides an accessible focus for the bigger picture that Le Guin wishes to convey. Stone Telling looks back on her childhood, when she was called North Owl (Kesh people change their names whenever it seems appropriate to do so). She lives with her mother and grandmother in a matrilineal society whose rituals harmonize with nature and the passing seasons. She studies the habits of animals and learns the Kesh song...
...little too hard to reach; the younger set in this film. The soundtrack is composed of insipid, topical songs that should have been replaced by something with a little guts, like "Carmen" or "Georgia," even at the risk of not being able to sell the record to youngsters. The focus on the younger generation is stronger than in other Tesich films, with middle age characters seldom making any appearence except in two dimensional form. This gives the film the surreal aspect of other movies aimed at teens. After all, the whole world is not composed of the proto-and nouveau...
Radcliffe's focus--on women and programs for women--make the college a particularly exciting place to work, said Stevens...
During the New Deal, Gilbert was one of the first economists to focus his attention on the economies of developing nations...