Word: focused
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reached the finals by defeating another Rutgers player, Haji Jagsdale, 6-3, 2-6, 6-1 in the semis. In the championship match, Lee took a commanding 5-0 lead before losing focus and dropping the next two games. Before the start of the next game, however, Olthof retired...
Colleges must consider all of these issues, and not just focus on student norms. A lot of effort is spent persuading the binge drinkers to give up a behavior which most of them don't view as a problem. The more a student drinks, the larger the number of drinks he or she thinks it's okay to consume. The measures the College Alcohol study uses to define binge drinking--five drinks in a row for men and four for women--are scoffed at by binge drinkers: "What's five drinks, I can drink ten and still function...
...assault weapons should be banned from manufacture and sale throughout the United States. Such a ban is already in effect in a number of states. Furthermore, a buyback program should be created to focus especially on semiautomatic and multiple-cartridge weapons--the sort that are made to kill other human beings...
...While the focus is on Boston area graffiti, graffiti is not a unique phenomenon in each city; many of the activities and concerns of writers around the world are very similar. Today's urban graffiti has its roots in the New York of the early '70s. It is a worldwide phenomenon, visible in almost any city or town, with new styles and movements developing and spreading out of the cities...
...acnowledge the fact that there was some degree of tension in this process in the mid-70s is valid," he said. "The overwhelming focus .... should be about the cooperative relationship between Harvard and the tenants...