Word: focused
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...main focus of the conference, which was partially sponsored by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, was on the best ways for lay people to see the comet as it makes its only appearance until the year...
That's the topic of a new magazine called "Faith" being organized by Mather House senior Charles T. Lelon. The magazine will focus not on any particular religion or take political stands, but look at all religions from the point of view of their followers...
...Woman oppositions that deodorant commercials of the '70's depicted as feminist chic. The prevailing themes of conflict are now heard through a polyphony of women's voices--straight, gay, and other--marking the shift in strategy from reactionary to constructive politics. Millet's comment that women should focus their energies on "creating eroticism rather than fighting porn" drew loud applause from a packed audience consisting of scholars, housewives, critics, social workers, professionals, conservatives, students, and lesbians, in addition to radical feminists and men--strange bedfellows...
...Government Department--the only one at Harvard ever to face public cases of sexual harassment by permanent faculty members--has become the focus of campus-wide and national attention...
Unhappily, the safest prediction is that no one is likely to focus soon on the one action that would do the most good: chopping the budget deficit. That would permit an effective dollar devaluation, which would benefit trade far more than any other conceivable legislation. But it would require cuts in Government spending going well beyond any that Congress is preparing to enact this fall, and probably tax increases as well. Moving to limit imports is so much easier, but so much more costly in the long...