Word: focused
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Angeles lawyer for the homeless. In Washington, Homeless Advocate Snyder managed to get a referendum passed "guaranteeing adequate overnight shelter," which if approved by Congress could make the city responsible for housing 5,000 to 15,000 people a night. Because last week's freeze served to focus national attention, Snyder said, "we were rooting for the cold." He is afraid, though, that the homeless may soon be conveniently forgotten, returning to their semivisible status once milder weather returns...
...diocese. After all, I was in Missouri for ten years and no one ever had a rumor about me being named a cardinal. I'm the same person I was then, now! The difference is that I happen to be the Archbishop of Boston. That is a focus on the importance of the place...
...increased role of women in the work force and the marked decrease of family size in urban industrialized societies) to those conditions which more obviously relate to abortion in the United States today (such as the inadequacy of sex education programs and of aid to single mothers). To focus the abortion debate upon woman and fetus is to ignore the social complexity of the issue and to deny the social realities of which abortion is only one effect...
...focus of concern is the lack of social and academic support currently available to the school's 2300 students, who do not enjoy a House system or even a single place on campus for advising and counseling. Possible solutions include closer ties between grad students and the College through new House affiliate programs supplementing current tutor networks...
...annual focus of attention among housing officials, the allocation formula is based on a tricky combination of past trends, current space, and guesswork. The latter, not surprisingly, is the hardest part, basically a prediction of how many students in a particular House will decide to take a leave the following year. When those doing the guessing miss the mark--even by a small number--the already crowded Houses suffer. A few years ago, North House got squeezed. This year, Mather got crunched...