Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Director Corn, a respected professor of occupational health at the University of Pittsburgh, who was appointed to head OSHA late last year, is determined to make the agency more effective. Corn is moving to hire 250 new inspectors and expand the agency's training program to focus more on worker health. Of 1,200 OSHA inspectors, only 135 are industrial hygienists. "OSHA has taken a hell of a rapping for petty enforcement," says Corn. "It was deserved. We've concentrated far too much on safety and not enough on health...
...kneels down and braces himself against the pillar with his elbow. His face is tense with wrinkles as he squeezes his left eye shut to focus with his camera eye. Beads of sweat are forming on his head and under his eyes while he holds this position and waits for the conductor...
...primary focus of the Bodies, Ourselves group remains Our Bodies, Ourselves. "There are times when if I'm feeling lousy and like nothing's going on in my life, I remember the book, and how much it means to people," Sanford says. "Like when we get letters from someone in the hills in Kentucky, saying 'I've never been able to talk to anyone about these things, and your book really meant a lot to me and here's an experience...
...media has turned its focus away from the women's movement in recent years, and the women themselves seem to have left the strident voices that characterized their initial protest against a male-dominated capitalist society behind. The Boston Women's Health Collective is thinking about putting together a book on parenting, and this time the women say they will include experiences from both men and women. But whatever happens to the group that wrote it, or to the feminist movement in general, the next copy of Our Bodies, Ourselves that gets put out on my high school library...
TALK ABOUT madmen is frustrating. An inquiry into madness is even more so: it is difficult to focus, and there are distinctions to be agreed upon. As examples are amassed and the inquirer's theoretical construct rises, the madness described inevitably assumes a certain flavor and tone. Sometimes there is the circus fascination, fallen from favor in this age of ethics but quite popular in medieval days, where raving lunatics in various aspects of disintegration are portrayed to impress hellish demonology on the mind of the reader. Other times the inquirer insists that his aims are ones of great moral...