Word: focused
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...samples from Mars in 1998. Many, like Sagan, are convinced that the advantages of a cooperative mission would override the possible risks. Besides sharply reducing the enormous costs of going to Mars alone, such a venture, says Sagan, "would revitalize a dispirited and unraveling NASA" and provide a "coherent focus for the U.S. space program...
...modernism scorns the past and its romance. Yet what lingers from the play's three sprawling hours is Smith's one-woman parade of fussy antics and arch-nasalities to the dumb-struck wonderment of Margaret Tyzack as the horrified boss turned sly collaborator. Shaffer needs to edit and focus. Lettice's architectural views notwithstanding, less can be more...
...study, which Rowe has led for three yearswhile at Harvard, is a "focus on the factors thatpermit older people to remain fit and healthy," hesaid...
...House Armed Services Committee planned hearings on the spreading scandal starting this week; the Senate Armed Services Committee will follow in July. Both disclaimed any idea of interfering with the Ill Wind investigation. Their focus will be on determining whether the Pentagon needs new contracting procedures to guard against the kind of massive fraud that Ill Wind seems to be turning...
...Some of the focus should be on specific urban problems," says Bogg, citing Black-on-Black crime as one of two major issues facing many urban communities. "The other issue is growth--how growth in surrounding areas detracts from growth within urban centers...