Word: focusing
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...society. Barnet and Mueller believe that the 1960s saw a crucial shift in both the operations and the orientation of the giant oligopolistic corporations that dominate the American economy. In that period, a new breed of "global managers" arose who no longer see the national economy as the natural focus of corporate interests. Instead they aspire to organize and direct the world economy on their own. These men, such as Jacques Maisonrouge of IBM and George Ball of Lehman Brothers International (a former Undersecretary of State and a possible Democratic Secretary) agree with William Spencer of Citicorp that "the political...
FUTURE PLANS: Once our movement arouses the interest of the people in a nation, through mass media it will spread all throughout the world ... So, we are going to focus our attention on one nation from where to reach the world. For that purpose I chose...
...photographic morgue. Its generally gentlemanly tone contrasts with a helter-skelter makeup that suggests all the news that fits, it prints. Says Murphy: "An editorial on unjust hiring policies doesn't create the same excitement as marches and barking dogs in Birmingham, but we will continue to focus on important problems-housing, education, jobs, voting." The Afro has one of the sharpest of young black editors, Raymond Boone, 38, who has brought sophistication and verve to the Richmond edition. He feels the black press must "rededicate itself to serve as a weapon for blacks." The Afro has been there...
Love Portraits. Miss Herbert, Stead's newest novel, is less ambitious. It is about a foolish woman, carefully framed and lighted so that the outside world exists only as dim periphery. The focus is entirely on the beautiful Eleanor Herbert, a variation on the Steadian observation that the English are not self-conscious hypocrites. Instead, as the author once wrote, they display "a natural ingrained double face from birth. They're the Western Chinese: old and smooth with deceit...
...study "Reality and Truth and Construct: Three Great Perspectives"--the perspectives being the Hindu, Buddhist, and Islamic religions. He stresses that, "Although I respect the theoretical basis of the school that allows personal freedom, a solid academic framework will keep the experience of the year from lacking solid academic focus." An anthropologist and a professor of Arabic studies complete the faculty. In past years, Jaeger, as executive director of the school, has appointed himself to the faculty, but this year his five-and two-year-old children and his involvement in the Bath Environment Campaign (to prevent a new motorway...