Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...disease rates. Many of the plastic flower people have gotten hooked on amphetamines, and these "speed freaks"-who shoot drugs with hypodermics-are passing hepatitis around on dirty needles. Venereal disease has also spread, and too many would-be hippies have allowed marijuana and LSD to become the main focus of their lives. Some of the most serious hippies, alarmed by these developments, have given up drugs altogether. Others have fled the scene...
...company's name was changed in 1958 to Monogram Industries to cover a rapidly growing hodgepodge of products. Stone wanted to eliminate some and focus attention on one or two products. His boss balked, so Stone quit...
...three presiding officers at the meetings-William Cardinal Conway of Ireland and Pericle Cardinal Felici, the secretary-general of Vatican II-are generally regarded as conservatives. The agenda ignores the two most bothersome issues facing the church today-priestly celibacy and birth control. Instead, the bishops are expected to focus on a quintet of less pressing questions: canon-law reform, updating doctrine, seminary renewal, mixed marriages and liturgy...
...been said, for a smile, that legal education sharpens the mind by narrowing it. To my mind, there is more truth to this than we have been willing to admit. The methods fostered at this school and widely adopted elsewhere do have a tendency to exalt dialectical skill, to focus the mind on narrow issues, and to obscure the fact that no reasoning, however logical, can rise above the premises on which it is based. If the Harvard Law School, through its faculty activity and its teaching, could shift its concern even slightly from the generally too narrow objectives...
Discussions in the morning will focus on scientific questions, while the afternoon meeting will deal with the role of medicine in society during the twentyfirst century...