Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Griffith will be something of a one-man monitoring board. He plans to continue what he did in How True: "Talk about what is right and wrong about the press." His intention is not to turn out a "trade column" but to write for the concerned layman and to focus on issues that the public finds "pertinent and fascinating"-such as whether the press should print everything it knows. "Some journalists feel that because of the First Amendment they couldn't possibly be accountable to anyone," says Griffith. "That position is nice to hold, but an awful...
...necessary, yet the feeling usually arises that urgent business is being left unattended, that an idle nation (idle in the sense of ignoring self-improvement and reform) does the devil's work. Indeed, during both the Hoover and Eisenhower presidencies, these pauses were accompanied by ambitious attempts to focus on great and worthy national goals...
...elections, most Arabs with a sense of grievance vote for the Rakah (Communist) Party, which has four members in the Knesset; two are Jews. Lately there has been talk among the Arabs about trying to focus voting strength to increase their membership in parliament to twelve?a powerful bloc in Israel's fragmented politics. Last December the voters of Nazareth (pop. 40,000), Israel's largest Arab city, elected Tawfiq Zayad, a Communist, as their mayor...
...Only by focusing on Gummerson can you focus on Marxism, and now that Gummerson stuff is divisive," he said, pausing on the stairs of the Geography building. "It shows the power of the dialectical process: Feedbacks...
This week, the panel will concentrate on Government, History and Economics. During the last week of April the talks will focus on Psychology and Social Relations, Sociology and Anthropology...