Word: focused
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Several Harvard officials attending yesterday's anti-apartheid rally said they were impressed with the event, but said it was unfair that President Bok become the focus of personal criticism...
...tenure (1957-61): the coed College, the dramatic increase in the numbers of Blacks from Seven in the class of 1961 to well over 100 in the class of 1985, the increase in total student numbers and cultural diversity, the flourishing of several significant Black institutions the increased focus on technology, was also happy to find a sense of sameness in the intense search for excellence...
...celebration was assured of attracting public and media attention to the project that was once the focus of controversy. Today. Charles Square appears to have converted many of its earlier critics...
...motion, Men and Angels seems to promise, at most, some domesticated chills: Laura and her hidden zealotry may be a menace to Anne or the children. Can the babysitter be stopped before she does something awful? In fact, violence does occur near the end, but the real focus of the novel has long since shifted elsewhere. With considerable skill and subtlety, Gordon has constructed a series of intertwined meditations questioning the nature and even the value of motherhood...
Much of Ohio's investigation will focus on Financier Marvin Warner, Home State's owner and until recently a major investor in E.S.M. The probe will put additional heat on Celeste, since Warner was one of his biggest campaign contri butors. Warner, who stayed away from Ohio last week in his Miami apartment, blames Home State's collapse primarily on E.S.M.'s accountant. Says he: "It's not only a matter of terrible personal loss, it's a feeling of humiliation...