Word: focused
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Japanese animation has an advantage over other film genres because the energy and focus of the message isn't diffused or obscured by overdone special effects. So many movies like Star Wars: Phantom Menace seem almost like spectacles more than epic adventures in their own right.Japanese animation transcends this barrier and returns to the emotional center of the adventure. In that sense, it reminds us why such films as The Neverending Story or the original Stars Wars movies were worth watching in the first place. As a recent convert myself, I can see why all readers out of the loop...
...soon after that a strange thing may happen: without improving the compensation for those who work at Harvard, the University may be able to claim a payroll compliant with the Cambridge Living Wage initiative. The Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) must make students aware of these machinations and focus attention on the outsourcers as well as Harvard itself...
...Living Wage Campaign is to be successful, the PSLM and its supporters must turn the focus to companies like SSI and UNICCO that keep the salaries of those employed by the University at less than the living wage. In this stage of the fight, the Living Wage Campaign has lost the iconic power of John Harvard, Heartless Employer, but must make its call heard in the executive offices of the outsourcers. Only when the outsourcers are made to comply can the campaign consider itself successful...
...think we are just going to focus on individually playing the best we can," Cowan said. "We need to go out to play hard on Saturday. I don't think we are as worried about Dartmouth and focusing on them as we are [about] focusing on ourselves and getting ready for the game...
...event was co-sponsored by a number of campus groups, including other organizations that focus on issues of sexuality, as well as cultural, ethnic, public service and other activist groups...