Word: focused
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although the Christian Brothers say they want to focus on educational programs instead of wine production, some insiders suspect another reason: the conflict between the order's religious values and widespread public concern about alcoholism, which has led to a general decline in liquor sales...
...want to shift the focus from minority organizations as a whole to individual minority students. I am sure that many minority students--both members and non-members of minority organizations--attend organization-sponsored activites and participate in political and cultural events, while at the same time interacting with other members of the Harvard community. Yet things can sour when students devote more and more of their time to minority activities. In extreme cases, minorities look to minority groups as comfortable pillows of escape...
...crash, Horton was told by Gulf Power officials that an internal auditing group had recommended his dismissal after 33 years with the company because of possible violations of company policies. On the same morning, Horton informed his lawyer, Fredric Levin, that he believed he had become the focus of the grand jury investigation...
...crusading is turning the faith into a "political agenda masked with a veneer of spirituality," in the harsh words of Kent Hill of the conservative Institute on Religion and Democracy. A. James Reichley of the Brookings Institution believes that mainline "social and political action takes away from the religious focus." Mainliners sometimes seem more convinced about the virtues of the Sandinistas or the vices of Nestle than, say, the meaning of Christ's Crucifixion and Resurrection...
...When you get hysterical and phobic behavior, it tends to focus on a particular obsessive object, and I appear to have become such an object for Mr. Egan."--Wolff, in response to Egan's remarks...