Word: focused
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...strength, which unites everyone with a sense of pride, strength, or even outrage. Our generation has never confronted a reality harsher than Reaganism. We no longer have that common depth of emotion that used to shake up and move the world. Vice President George Bush claims we have to focus on values. I claim we have to rediscover our national feeling, and our collective moral conscious...
...they overrepresented elsewhere? In part, many women undergraduates say they fear voicing their opinions in a public forum, even though they would like to do so. But women are not only avoiding intimidating situations, it seems they are also choosing comfortable ones, areas where the focus is on personal relations rather than systemic power plays...
Many of the Sociology Department's offerings focus on the study of women, minorities, families and human problems. Government courses often study these same problems but rarely consider a case study of a family or a minority or a woman who is actually affected by large-scale government programs. Here is a government policy, we learn in a typical class. Millions of people were affected; this is how the government reacted; the systems are still in control...
...latched on to an important issue, but he is wrong to talk as if all mergers and acquisitions are equally bad. Friendly combinations may improve U.S. competitiveness. The more disturbing deals are the hundreds of hostile takeovers carried out by raiders financed with junk bonds. No wonder corporate executives focus on short-term profits and their companies' stock prices if they constantly have to look over their shoulders for a raider. Even worse, hostile takeovers often saddle the target companies with huge debts that make them weaker than they were before the raid. The solution...
Dear John is just one of a slew of new shows that focus on not-so-swinging singles. Single dad James Naughton copes (tediously) with a teenage daughter in CBS's Raising Miranda, and Richard Mulligan mugs (insufferably) as a middle-aged widower in NBC's Empty Nest. Meanwhile, Kate Jackson reprises Diane Keaton's role as a Manhattan yuppie trying to juggle a baby and a high- pressure corporate job in NBC's Baby Boom. The pilot episode plays too much like a Reader's Digest version of the movie (both written by Charles Shyer and Nancy Meyers...