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Word: focusing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...number of recent events have combined to focus Western attention on Islam: the resurgence of the faith in African politics, the oil wealth of the Arabian peninsula, the revolution in Iran. But many Muslims feel, with some justice, that this belated interest in their world and their faith has resulted in hostile propaganda rather than empathy and understanding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World of Islam | 4/16/1979 | See Source »

...after working for nearly a year with the Roundtable staff and his own corporation's Washington representatives, Adam has once more turned the focus of his efforts to managing his corporation from his office in New York. But his time is tied up more with politics now than before he went to Washington. "I find myself in New York meeting more and more people in government trying to obtain the views of business," he says...

Author: By Andrew P. Buchsbaum, | Title: Minding Everybody's Business | 4/12/1979 | See Source »

Holcombe became the focus of labor controversy in the spring of 1976. When the Radcliffe dining hall management suspended him--qstensibly for cooking cauliflower too soon--he submitted a list of five safety grievances. Dining hall workers left their jobs for an emergency meeting, and students, some faculty and workers rallied to pressure for his rein-statement. After his suspension, Holcombe worked at the Freshman Union until his death...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sherman Holcombe: 1940-1979 | 4/12/1979 | See Source »

...MBTA) contractor for tunnel construction, plans to dig an 80 by 40-ft, hole, known as a "haul shaft," at the corner of Garfield St. and Mass. Ave. Cambridge residents have turned long-standing complaints about this shaft into affidavits for the suit as part of its new focus...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: City, Citizens File Suit to Halt Red Line Construction, Charge MBTA With Violation of Three Federal Statutes | 4/11/1979 | See Source »

SASC is also trying to make people aware that the fight against apartheid in this country is not restricted to college campuses. "This is the last day of the National Week of Action Against Apartheid," Jessica S. Banthin '81, another organizer, said. "We are going to focus on the fact that this is a national movement," she added...

Author: By Dayna L. Cunningham, | Title: S. Africa Teach-Out Planned to Rally Student's Support | 4/11/1979 | See Source »

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