Word: focused
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...several harpsichord recordings. Currently he works with the Handel and Haydn Society, but in the past, Hogwood has recorded with such American groups as the Chicago Symphony and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra. His seminar, which is sponsored by the Office for the Arts and the Music Department, will focus on the problems and joys inherent in conducting classical symphonies...
...article, Wiener writes that the primary focus of Parsons' actions in Germany was Nicholas Poppe, an expert on Mongolian languages. Poppe worked with the Nazis during the war and was banned from the United States, according to the article...
...Woods' angry energy is clarifying as well as terrifying, and when he unleashes it (usually without warning), the effect is to focus our attention where it belongs, not on a suspense story but on the mysteries of human behavior. Not that there are any comfortable conclusions. Woods' idealistic young associate (Robert Downey Jr.) keeps hoping that Eddie will rediscover his '60s idealism. A private eye (Margaret Colin) is standing by to offer redemptive love. These easy, familiar motivations are avoided. Eddie Dodd is not going to be anybody's exemplary case. He is a marginal one, a hard...
...that reason, the AECCG, which includes such major conservation groups as the World Wildlife Fund, TRAFFIC and Wildlife Conservation International, envisions a triage approach. The group plans to concentrate its resources on about 40 populations that have the best chance of being guarded from poachers. That strategy would focus on saving about 250,000 elephants and would reluctantly leave another 500,000 to their fate...
...educators object to the idea of the news program itself. Modeled on the Today show and Good Morning America, Channel One will be a fast-paced montage of news headlines, facts and features, along with a focus piece examining one story in depth. The young announcers, who include Kenny Rogers Jr., son of the country-and-western singer, will even spring pop quizzes on their viewers. Example: Which of these two is older, the pyramids or the Great Wall of China? (Answer: the pyramids...