Word: focused
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although he was not named outstanding swimmer of the meet, Berkoff was clearly the center of the cable coverage, with most of the focus on his "Berkoff Blastoff" backstroke start and the way he has changed the mechanics of that stroke...
Wolff adds, however, that Harvard-RadcliffeAlumni Against Apartheid has yet to take aposition on this new twist to the divestmentissue. "Our focus is Harvard's investment policyso we haven't taken a stand on this," he says...
...Harlem neighborhoods, where nearly 1 out of every 4 babies is born to a teenage mother, that Carrera's teaching is put to its sternest test in the Family Life Education and Adolescent Sexuality Program, which he created. Pregnancy-prevention courses, Carrera argues, are generally too narrow in focus to succeed. His approach is holistic, born of a simple premise: Give young people a sense of their own promise, and they will not be as likely to disrupt their lives with an early pregnancy...
...most Congressmen detect no great excitement among their constituents about the Wright investigation. But the longer the affair drags on, and the more heavily the press and television focus on eventual public hearings, the more likely voters are to pay unfavorable attention. "This is no ten-kiloton violation," says Ted Van Dyk, a noted Washington political consultant. "But it's hard to convince the folks at home after Meese, Tower, Hart...
...official strategy for evading an answer is to focus resolutely on the high-minded events of 1789, like the Declaration of Rights, with its ideals of liberty, equality, and the sovereignty of the people. As for the blood that flowed thereafter -- the September Massacres of 1792, the Terror of 1793, and the 1793-94 uprising of the Vendee in which 400,000 died -- the less said the better. The play-it-safe politics of the commemoration is aimed at creating at least the illusion of ideological harmony, the same strategy that has sparked Mitterrand's recent political success...