Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...defining the focus of the Library, King does not mention women's history, as one might expect, but instead social history with an emphasis on women. With that broad a focus, and with the already-proven adaptability of the Library, King seems justified in not worrying about the future role of the Library within the community. Even in the unlikely case of a merger of Radcliffe with Harvard, King says she thinks the Library is already well-established enough that it could easily function as part of the Harvard College Library...
SftP says the capitalist system forces to focus on coercing the individual to fit the system, and that such a society places profit before people. Among the examples cited by SftP are: attempts to cure cancer through recombinant DNA research rather than by eliminating carcinogens from the environment; screening factory workers for genetic susceptibility to tungsten-caused cancer rather than eliminating the hazard; pinning the blame for deviant behavior and widespread social ills on the genes of individuals rather than on the structure of society...
...assignment is to gather information against an erstwhile chum, a hoodlum played with menacing Southern smarm by Jerry Reed. The hood has become the chief source of corruption in one of those corrupt little Southern towns that may only exist in popular fiction, where their function is to focus the otherwise vague regional fears of Northern liberals. In his pursuit of Reed, the reluctant Reynolds becomes involved with an engaging assortment of odd characters: Jack Weston as a New York-born Government man parboiling in sweaty paranoia; Alice Ghostley as a dotty old bookkeeper who has the goods...
McCarthy's strategy is to focus on some 20 states-eight in the Northeast, seven in the Midwest and five in the West. His support will draw partly from Carter's liberal electorate and could hurt the Democratic nominee in a close election. A nationwide Gallup poll, taken from Aug. 6 to Aug. 9, gave McCarthy 6% of the vote. That figure could be larger in some crucial Northern states-enough to tilt them out of the Democratic column. In California, a Mervin Field poll, taken between July 24 and Aug. 3, gave McCarthy 7% of the vote...
...suspected frauds, though most state compensation offices are woefully short of investigators. Mary Ellen Gornick heads an auditing team in Illinois to cut down on abuses. Says she: "We were so preoccupied with strengthening the system so legitimate claims would get paid. Only recently have we been able to focus on some of the abuses...