Word: focused
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There's nothing like some warm Sprite and month-old Pepperidge Farm Mint Milano cookies to spice up an otherwise drab Friday afternoon. Concentration parties offer a unique forum for interaction with top-quality Faculty, that is if you concentrate on what you're saying while you focus in on that irritating piece of cookie stuck on the left side of your sophomore tutor's mustache...
...going to talk about the peace process with a focus on its development potential," Ross said. "I'm not interested in blame. I'm interested in solving problems...
...hoping that [the study] will shift people's attention from focusing too much on eggs," Stampfer said, "and instead focus on other changes in diet which would be more beneficial...
...encouraging undergraduates to think well while always remembering they are involved too in a game demanding some level of awareness. Harvard tends to reward total thinking, the welding of reader with book, the stopping of time in darkroom or laboratory. But only in the rarest of situations is such focus wholly safe. Always a scrap of mindfulness must caress the environment, noting perhaps the softly closing door, the far-off squeak, the scent of perfume or smoke or fear, the look crossing someone's eyes. Full and undivided attention encourages all sorts of surprise, sometimes grisly, and some surprise originates...
...midterm early on. When you're done with your thesis it's not pleasant to face three postponed midterms, eight papers and finals worth 65 percent or more of the course grade--especially if you only took the classes in the first place so that you could focus on your thesis, and you're not really interested in the material. As the second semester gets underway...