Word: focused
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although Kemp did not name specific programs that he considered overbudgeted, he called for sharp cuts in subsidies to large corporations and a greater focus on programs that aid the unemployed...
...active member of the BSA and the Black community on campus, I can assure Professor Kilson, and the University as well, that our focus is upon improving race relations and promoting a truly cosmopolitan atmosphere. I do not happen to believe that seeking to further educate the local academic environs on the diverse talents and contributions of the non-European peoples of the world is necessarily ethnocentric. As has been constantly emphasized, the proposed Third World Center would be available to all students and members of the community. I personally feel that campus racial atmospheres, while improving, continue to lack...
...time my guys get through with the numbers," Pickens says, "we know those companies better than they know themselves." The team spends months sifting reams of public documents, including the annual reports and other resources kept in Mesa's extensive library of the U.S. petroleum industry. The researchers focus on a firm's domestic oil and gas reserves and feed their data, along with such matters as projected interest rates and energy prices, into a computer...
...roast for the Women's Action Alliance in Manhattan, she took a round of ribbing from the likes of her daughter Laura Zaccaro, Feminist Gloria Steinem, New York City Council President Carol Bellamy and Comedian Marilyn Michaels. Then Ferraro took a turn at ribbing herself. "Governor Cuomo said the focus of the campaign should be the family. But I didn't know it was my family!" she joshed, referring to her husband John Zaccaro (who was sentenced by a New York court the next day to 150 hours of community service for his involvement in a fraudulent real estate deal...
...even Ornstein confesses that something odd happens when all of this ambition and money come together in the 257-sq.-mi. Beltway cooker. Being the focus of national news creates an unwarranted sense of self-importance. Economic security diminishes sympathy and understanding. The concerns of Pittsburgh and Bakersfield and a thousand other places grow more and more remote...