Word: focused
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...that complete divestment would be an inappropriate step for the University to take as an institution devoted to education, and that it would be an ineffective way to battle apartheid because divestment would have only limited and symbolic value. President Bok has repeatedly told divestment activists that they should focus their efforts on getting the federal government to ban American investment there instead of on Harvard's relatively small investment portfolio...
...first and foremost an educational institution, the purpose of which is to inquire for truths. Nothing runs more counter to this ideal than supporting a country that operates on lies, on slavery and genocide," says current SASC member and Black Students Association Vice-President Anthony A. Ball '86. "We focus on Harvard because Harvard is a national issue ... and other schools care about what Harvard is thinking...
When Professor of Economics Martin S. Feldstein '61 finished his December coursewide lecture on social insurance in the popular Social Analysis 10. "Principles of Economics," few of the 1000 students in the class realized that Feldstein had presented material that has been the focus of more than a decade of heated debate in the academic community...
Whatever the results of the Sandinista peace campaign, the Administration's tough tone seemed to focus congressional opinion, but not necessarily in ways that the White House liked. Before Ortega's statement, House Speaker Tip O'Neill, a Democrat, weighed in with a stern reply to Reagan's "uncle" remark. Said O'Neill: "The U.S. has played 'uncle' in Latin America for far too long. It is time to play brother." Speaking to a group of Canadian business executives during a Time Inc. news tour in Washington, Delaware's Democratic Senator Joseph Biden charged that "we have simply been lied...
...hydrogen and fluorine, are the most powerful lasers now in use. But a missile-killing laser beam might have to be 10 million times as powerful as the one that the Air Force is now using in antisatellite weapons tests. Also, because its long wavelength somewhat spreads out its focus, a chemical laser beam might have to be held on precisely the same spot on a missile's skin for as long as seven seconds; during that time the missile might rise 20 miles. Because a ground- based laser could not send a beam around the curve of the earth...