Word: focused
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Point Salines airfield was the focus of the Oct. 25, 1983, invasion of Grenada (pop. 90,000), which involved 6,000 American troops and left 19 Americans dead. President Reagan's "rescue mission" followed a bloody coup in which Marxist Prime Minister Maurice Bishop was killed and extremists seized power. For more than a year afterward, the U.S. maintained a 245- member peacekeeping force on the island. Now the only remaining soldiers are two legal experts, a financial officer and some 25 U.S. Special Forces instructors who will remain until September, training the Grenadian police special service unit in counterinsurgency...
...focus of the big banks' drive to enter new territory will now shift to Congress. The large financial companies are pinning their hopes on a bill that will open regional arrangements to all banks in five years. It sets July 1, 1990, as a trigger date, after which the barriers against outsiders will be dropped. The legislation was approved last week by the House Banking Committee. Said William Dabaghi, general counsel to the Coalition for Regional Banking and Economic Development, which represents medium-size lenders: "Unfortunately, our opponents did their homework and managed to convince a number of the swing...
...than lessen the Government's impact on the economy. By depicting the proposal in ideological terms, Reagan may also risk losing the support of Democratic centrists who are sympathetic to the plan but not to the fustian accompanying it. "The President has to keep his message in single-minded focus," says one G.O.P. analyst. "To the extent that the message becomes diffuse, it will attract opponents...
...artificial to separate the campus from the community. The pressures are no less real here. Perhaps a principal difference is that away from the university, idealism is less acceptable and compromise becomes commonplace. And so, if I were to choose a particular concept for this occasion, I would focus on survival and on the survival of humane values...
...like preposterous Band-Aids attached to the nipples of a linebacker. An Australian woman in the movie, Bev Francis, has bulked herself up into a simulation of the Incredible Hulk. She clearly has the most daunting set of muscles in the Las Vegas body builders' competition that is the focus of the movie. But she loses because the judges think she looks too "masculine." Bev is not, that is to say, the Venus de Milo...