Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from getting off the drawing boards in 1970, the year DuBois was originally slated to commence operations. But Leonard has been determined not to be thwarted in efforts to put the institute finally on its feet, and when the administration's design for the research facility became the focus of a concerted attack last spring he adopted a "damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead" strategy to stave off challenges to his conception of what DuBois should...
...fact, the question of maternal approval would not necessarily surface in a trial. But even so, Flanagan's basic case of unauthorized conveyance of dead human tissue will almost surely broach another "difficult" issue, linked with abortion, that could become the focus of a trial...
...first few months here, everybody comes perilously close to being a Nobody, and problems develop. Nobody here is impressed by the fact that they go to Harvard. Having gotten accustomed to dealing with life from the standpoint of being The Best, a lot of Harvard freshmen immediately lose their focus when they come here. They no longer have any distinguishing characterisitcs...
...search for a Vice President might distract attention temporarily, but the Ford Administration knows quite well what is the deadliest danger that it and the nation face: inflation. The new President sought last week to assure the country of his determination to confront it, making economic policy the focus of his heavily applauded first speech to Congress. But his program as it emerged in the broadest of outlines could almost be called Nixonomics without Nixon: it contained little that had not been advocated by the previous Administration. Whether that signified a barrenness of ideas or a realistic appreciation that inflation...
...bluntly the next day at the Cabinet meeting. He would not resign. There were no protests. But for the first time there were no spontaneous expressions of joy about fighting the good battle. The absence of cheers for his defiance may have helped make things come more clearly into focus for Richard Nixon...