Word: focused
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weekend meeting in Gatlinsburg, Tennessee, which the powerful House committee has planned for several months, will focus on government spending patterns, taxes and social insurance programs. The Ways and Means Committee, chaired by Daniel Rostenkowski (D-III.), is one of the House's most powerful committees, controlling all requests for fiscal expenditures before they reach the floor of Congress...
...Satan is the focus of 'Paradise Lost'," he said. "Christ is a poetic disaster." Bloom also described Milton's God as a "catastrophe, an ill-tempered, sanctimonious bore who resembles Ronald Reagan...
Since Schkolnick's complaint against the Fly Club was filed with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination in December, the nine clubs have become the focus of a debate over the role of single-sex institutions at Harvard. Schkolnick's case has made prominent the defects in Harvard social life, many students say. They say that the houses do not provide enough activities to satisfy them, and they need to seek an alternative. Until now, the primary alternative has been the final clubs...
While some professors approve of the focus on empiricism, some concentrators say what they call a shift away from theoretical research has boxed in the department...
...regret that Mr. Schwaber has decided to view our campaign as "Anti-Israel." Our focus has been against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, not against Israel's existence as Mr. Schwaber implies. Our posters quite clearly call for nothing but an end to U.S. support of the Israeli occupation. The Palestinian death toll printed on our posters refers only to those killed in the uprising in the occupied territories, and the photographs of Israel's mistreatment of Palestinians depict scenes only from the Israeli-occupied Arab lands, not from within Israel itself...