Word: focused
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...perhaps most glaringly, the future academic thrust of the Radcliffe Institute will remain the focus of discussions between faculty, scholars and administrators for months to come. What is still unclear is how Radcliffe will maintain its emphasis on "women, gender and society" if it is open to both men and women whose research spans a tremendous range of disciplines and topics...
...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...
...first resident of the building will be the Center for Genomics and Proteomics (CGP), which will focus on looking at whole cells in an attempt to better explain animal behavior and evolution...
...Institute will "sustain a commitment to the study of women, gender and society," according to a press release. However, leaders have not yet clarified whether women's issues will remain Radcliffe's exclusive focus...
...drug reporting system is a "supersensitive one, not necessarily an accurate one," says Gorman, and that is appropriate. The goal of collecting this data is to raise any red flags early to focus further investigation and research in case patients are experiencing problems with a drug. However, "what is interesting in this case," Gorman notes, "is that what is being reported is exactly what is not supposed to happen with this drug." Since Celebrex was expected to cause fewer stomach problems than some other painkillers, the suggestion that it may be causing severe gastrointestinal reactions is surprising...