Word: focused
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...Living Wage Campaign does not object to the existence of the task force. We appreciate its focus on the situation of the "contingent workforce" of casual and sub-contracted employees. Furthermore, we look forward to any conclusions it might reach, since our own research committee has discovered the difficulty of attaining accurate and comprehensive labor statistics from Harvard. But we have insisted all along that the task force must decide how, not whether, to implement the living wage, and the provost made clear in our recent meeting that the task force has no such charge. We left the meeting cognizant...
...That streak does not really factor into our mentality. If anything, fixating on the streak hurts us," Fallows said. "This is a focus on irrelevant themes, when our real focus is a day-in-day out concentration on the practical elements of rowing...
Combined with the national winning experience of Fallows and Lenhart--who have rowed together since attending Walt Whitman High School near Washington D.C.--the crew is poised for more great accomplishments. Yet, discussion is seldom made at the boathouse of individual merits. The focus of the crew is on the group identity of the boat, and not on the accolades of any individual...
...Institute will "sustain a commitment to the study of women, gender and society," according to officials. However, leaders have said that issues of gender will not remain Radcliffe's exclusive focus. The ties that will bind the new interdisciplinary center together have yet to be determined exactly...
...well be a thing of the past come the graduation of the class of 2000. The long-awaited decision is the right one, acknowledging that Radcliffe is no longer a provider of undergraduate education (indeed, it has not been since at least 1977) and freeing the now Institute to focus solely on its mission of "studying women, gender and society" instead of wasting energy as an ill-defined 'college...