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Word: focused (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard has it all, but it's not all there for students," said vice presidential candidate Benjamin M. Wikler '03, who said the council should focus on bringing both "big and small" amenities--like rock concerts and two-ply toilet paper--to students...

Author: By Parker R. Conrad, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Few Sparks Fly at Council Debate | 12/10/1999 | See Source »

...stage. In crossing the ship, the sailors must take great pains to avoid the females' hoopskirts (their costumes are appropriately gaudy, but slightly oversized for the space allowed). Accordingly, director Marisa Echeverria's '00 choreography is fairly simplistic, an acquiescence to the space limitations, as she appropriately chooses to focus more on the production's musical aspects rather than maintain lofty production values...

Author: By James Crawford, | Title: Pinafore Your Thoughts | 12/10/1999 | See Source »

...decided that I could really use an "-ism." An "-ism" is something that was defined for me a long time ago by my high school European history teacher. Nationalism, Socialism, Communism--"-isms" were things that could make a bunch of disgruntled peasants forget their gripes about the government and focus their energies on their hate for other countries, he explained. "-Isms" were things that people didn't mind going to war for. Meanwhile, in the back of the classroom, my neighbor claimed that he could really get this country going by dispersing the seeds of "j-ism" to the population...

Author: By Richard D. Ma, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Endpaper: Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? | 12/9/1999 | See Source »

Sinead B. Walsh '00, the founder and president of Impact, said that while her organization first intended to focus on the College community, the drive has since been extended beyond campus...

Author: By Jordana R. Lewis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gift drive | 12/9/1999 | See Source »

Shashi Tharoor--the UN's director of communication and special projects, and a senior aide to Secretary-General Kofi Annan--was scheduled to speak on "The United Nations in the New Millennium," but instead, as he freely admitted to his audience, he chose to focus on the current state of the organization...

Author: By David C. Newman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: UN Official Pleads for US Support, Dues | 12/9/1999 | See Source »

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