Word: focused
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With the Crimson up 1-0, the Bulldogs began to lose focus and started making mistakes, mistakes that perhaps cost them...
...Capitol Hill is aboil with hearings, beginning this week, aimed at flogging the Administration for everything that's gone wrong in Russia. And the Clinton folks are fighting back with high-spin verbiage, casting the debate as a stark choice between helping Russia and abandoning it, and shifting the focus to another emotional campaign sound bite: "We're safer now, aren...
...confabs of the foreign policy establishment, such as the Aspen Institute, where last month she and her Bush Administration mentor Brent Scowcroft engaged in typically elevated and polite debate with Democratic stalwarts such as Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott. Rice believes U.S.-Russia relations should be reoriented to focus on security issues like nuclear disarmament rather than political and economic reform; the Administration is already moving in that direction. Although she would halt talk of Russia as a strategic partner, she doesn't seek confrontation. "Sometimes Russia's interests will conflict with ours, and sometimes they will coincide...
Hata's outward and inward lives are patterned like a trompe l'oeil, one of those tricky designs in which images emerge or recede with changes of perspective. Now a contemporary American suburbia is the focus; now a 1944 Pacific outpost turns the future Bedley Run into background...
Taking risks focuses the mind. Such activities are bracing, to say the least, whether you are a BASE jumper, a surgeon performing a quadruple-bypass operation or an actor executing a sword fight onstage while spouting Shakespeare. Most of us don't have work that is this invigorating. Engaging in risky activities makes us feel alive. It also satisfies a curiosity about our abilities--and how we handle challenges. It can utterly focus your mind. There's nothing like it. TIM MOFFET Vail, Colo...