Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hard to see that the Tories do not drift too far to the right. In this endeavor, he will have plenty of backbench support; even M.P.s who voted against Heath were touched by the personal sadness of this formidable, lonely man going down to unexpected defeat. But with the focus turning immediately to the next phase of elections, there was little time for sentimental postmortems. As the notoriously hardheaded Mrs. Thatcher put it, "I'll always be fond of dear Ted, but there's no sympathy in politics...
Cloaked in Mystery. Last week Onassis was once more the focus of international speculation. Amid reports that he was gravely ill-perhaps even near death-he was flown from Athens to Paris aboard an Olympic Airways Learjet specially outfitted with medical equipment. After resting for a night at his Avenue Foch apartment near the Arc de Triomphe, Onassis checked into the American Hospital in suburban Neuilly, managing to slip unobserved through the hospital's rear door. The crowd of reporters and photographers waiting at the hospital's main entrance apparently were deliberately distracted by the arrival...
Sato injured her arm two weeks ago and will not swim at all today. Instead she will focus on the two diving events. Patterson will be in Minnesota for the weekend to chair a National Council of Indian Students' meeting...
Future lectures will focus on contraception and abortion, homosexuality, sex and communication, and psychological aspects of sexual relationships...
...also as the group with the famed "fourth vow." All Catholic religious orders require members to take the three age-old oaths of poverty, chastity and obedience, but the Jesuits have a fourth vow all their own: special obedience to the Pope. This vow of fealty has become the focus of the recent struggle by more liberal Jesuits against conservatives in the Vatican and in the Society. Last week the delegates to an unusual General Congregation* that is charting the controversial future course of the Jesuits voted to change policy on the papal vow-an act that violated the express...