Word: focused
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard and MIT seem to be in the same boat--both schools are constantly vying for funds. But while MIT leads the pack on funding from private industry, Harvard's fundraising focus for the past several years has been alumni...
...phone gods would rather focus on things like last week's $115 billion merger of MCI WorldCom and Sprint. It's a record-size deal befitting record-size egos and has implications for Wall Street, where they're trying to identify tomorrow's survivors--and the targets those companies will swallow today. If you want to play, look for AT&T, MCI WorldCom, Bell Atlantic and SBC to survive; their targets include many small cable and wireless companies, along with such big outfits as Bell South, Global Crossing, Cincinnati Bell, Qwest and Nextel...
...same with business. If you focus on the goal and not the process, you inevitably compromise." He spits out the word. "Businessmen who focus on profits wind up in the hole. For me, profit is what happens when you do everything else right. A good cast will catch a fish. It's like Zen archery"--he believes in a brand of philosophical Buddhism, a surprising pursuit for a French-Canadian Catholic raised in Maine. "Success has nothing to do with sticking an arrow into the bull's-eye," he says. "It's all about practice--practicing taking the arrow...
...that lets it calibrate itself on the light from a known star--whose degree of atmospheric distortion will generally be predictable--and then use that information to correct the distortion of other, unknown bodies. A little fiddling with the incoming image and even the blurriest picture snaps right into focus...
...this dark satire is a sophisticated, self-aware photographer who, at 40, meets the perfect man: a charming, wealthy novelist. Shortly after their marriage, though, she finds he has turned into an oaf, banging around the house like a bull, routinely inflicting accidental injury. He never comes into focus, but the anger he arouses in his wife is all too clear...