Word: focused
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Brennan plans to push forward the policies he helped initiate at Montgomery Ward. Says he: "I'm very excited about going back and continuing the strategies that we started when I was there before. Our real focus is on merchandise, improving the products we offer." To make Montgomery Ward more profitable, he will probably reduce the payroll still further from the present 78,000 and perhaps close as many as 300 of the 2,099 catalog outlets. He will probably concentrate the firm's efforts in the Midwest, its strongest region...
Another example of The Crimson's continuing focus on protest to the exclusion of all other events related to South Africa occurred on Saturday, April 20. On that day, the Student Advisors Committee of the institute of Polices held an all day educational conference on South Africa. The Crimson received five press releases announcing the conference and its speakers on Wednesday. April 17, not only was no advance publicity given but also no reporter came to cover the event. The Crimson obviously thought that the issue of South Africa was important because you printed a front page story on Saturday...
...sides spent a total of 54 hours in three sets of discussions: strategic arms reduction talks (START), which involve intercontinental ballistic missiles; intermediate-range nuclear forces (INF), which focus on European-based nuclear weaponry; and space weapons, dominated by Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), also called Star Wars. To the discouragement of U.S. negotiators, Chief Soviet Negotiator Victor Karpov opened with demands that were unchanged from the last set of talks, which ended in late 1983 with Soviet walkouts. These included a proposal for long- range missiles that Washington contends is unresponsive to a U.S. offer to trade...
...recalling what Albert and his wife Marie Christine achieved. Until they began collecting in 1773, under the tutelage of the Austrian ambassador to Venice, drawings and prints had been regarded mainly as curiosities or reference objects and were seldom collected in a systematic way. Albert was the first to focus methodically on drawings as an index to the development of artists, while dividing his collection chronologically and by schools; though not a writer, he was one of the fathers of art history...
...report also recommends an increase in financial aid funding, and rates that retaining "the principles of the present aid plan ... will require more funding--estimated jobs 15 per cent beyond a normal inflationary increase--and a concerted effort to focus available resources on students who are on schedule to complete then degree programs in a reasonable time...