Word: focused
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These conclusions hardly come as a surprise to most people on campus--faculty and students alike. While the accreditation panel's focus was on student-faculty interaction and the quality of undergraduate education, it is clear that a form of segregation with more far-reaching consequences is developing. A lack of communication between students and their professors not only affects the quality of education, but also the functioning of the Harvard community as a whole...
Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence has been attempting to address the problem of junior faculty advancement as a whole for almost two years. (His plan would gradually increase the proportion of professors promoted from within Harvard's own ranks). But Spence has neglected to focus on the even larger problem of tenuring women at Harvard--either in-house or externally...
...Gephardt has done superbly well in the use ofnegative-sounding paid ads on television," saysKalb. "It certainly paid off for him in Iowa andSouth Dakota... I think in the South it's going tobe more dispersed and diffuse so that you're notgoing to get a clear, hard focus on the relativevalue of some of these negative ads." He adds thatGephardt may not have sufficient funds to achievea similar success tomorrow, while Dukakis and Goredo have enough money...
...dramatically suggesting that the price is too high for a small beleaguered democracy, Grossman became the new focus of an ongoing wrangle. To hard-liners he was just another yefei-nefesh, or beautiful soul, the Hebrew equivalent of "bleeding heart." For better and for worse, this is true. The Yellow Wind puts a human face on the enemy whom many Israelis would rather not look at. Grossman talks to a member of the outlaw militant Jewish underground in the West Bank town of Ofra, and concludes, "He does not want to think even for a minute about the situation...
Hiatt discussed the impacts of the disease."The absence of a vaccine and therapeutie agentsleave grim prospects for biology and medicine." hesaid. "With no mechanisms to change the prospectsin the near, or perhaps even distant future, ouronly hopes are to encourage serious, enlightenedresearch, and to focus on prevention...