Word: focused
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Faculty should "keep teaching, but shift the focus of teaching to the crisis at hand and how to resolve it," said MSP president John Cole...
Speaking to about 40 people in the Lowell House Junior Common Room, Ronald Takaki of the University of California at Berkeley stressed how images of Asian-Americans today are inaccurate when they focus completely on the minority's immigrant past...
...choice of subject was a natural progression from his first marathon, The Power Broker (1974), a 1,200-page study of New York City master builder Robert Moses. The Power Broker is an obligatory book for understanding modern urban politics. In turning to L.B.J., Caro shifted his focus from how New York City works to what makes the nation run. The answer is not surprising. As Franklin Roosevelt's factotum Tommy ("the Cork") Corcoran responded when Caro asked how the young L.B.J. gained power, "Money, kid. But you'll never be able to write about...
...Those who continue the struggle have been driven to such expedients as eliminating bylines on drug stories. For five months several news outlets ran the same coverage, word for word, on drug-related topics, so no one organization would be the focus of wrath. But the agreement fell apart under competitive pressures and the feeling of some reporters that others failed to contribute their fair share. In any case, it is a virtual impossibility for reporters to work in complete anonymity, and most Colombian journalists simply shoulder the risk. Says Enrique Santos Calderon, an El Tiempo columnist and Sunday editor...
Young's future plans include trying out for the Olympic team but right now, Young's focus is on this season. He is not intimidated about taking over as captain after Lane MacDonald, nor is he worried about repeating last season's glories...