Word: focused
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...further than President-elect Barack Obama’s transition website—aptly located at www.change.gov—to remember his promise of a new and improved Presidency. Yet, as Obama begins the vetting process for cabinet-level and advisory posts, many Americans have decried his focus on Washington insiders. Such critics claim that, by hearkening back to people who held positions in the Bush and Clinton administrations, Obama is abandoning his entire platform of change. What this argument fails to address, however, is that even those experienced politicians whose names may be familiar can still produce profound...
...want to be a generation of players that changes what Harvard soccer is all about,” Akpan said. “This is a big win.”While the team recognizes the significance of the win, its celebrations will be muted as the focus turns to tomorrow’s second-round game against No. 8 South Florida.“Reality is that we haven’t accomplished anything substantial yet,” Sager said.His coach could not agree more. “No one’s content...
...while the team recognizes the significance of the win, its celebrations will be muted as the focus turns to Tuesday’s second-round game against No. 8 South Florida...
...areas of the city. Beckett’s play, the story of two tramps waiting for a mysterious presence who never comes, puts into words the desolation of New Orleans and its residents. This 2007 project, a departure from Chan’s usual video installation work, was the focus of a talk last Thursday coinciding with the opening of his current exhibit, “Three Easy Pieces,” at the Carpenter Center.“You could call this talk ‘Three Easy Pieces and One Really Hard Piece...
...Keeping Gates as the Defense Secretary would allow him to continue his push to focus the military's efforts on insurgencies of the type it's facing in Iraq and Afghanistan, rather than on the hypothetical conventional wars for which it would prefer to plan - and for which it continues to order up costly weapons. (But continuity would also keep Pentagon spending, already at World War II levels, climbing into the stratosphere on autopilot...