Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sharper Focus. Never seriously shaken in the courtroom was the implication that someone had deliberately, although crudely, manipulated Miss Woods' recorder until satisfied that the 18.5-minute Watergate segment of the Haldeman-Nixon conversation was obliterated. The multiple short erasures were amateurish: a single long erasure would be far more likely to have been interpreted as an accident. Even after making all of the short starts and stops ?apparently listening to a portion, then erasing it, then moving on to another part?a shrewder operator would have activated a final continuous sweep of the tape past the erase head...
...week's testimony progressed, the focus in time and suspects gradually grew sharper. Ben-Veniste quizzed Louis B. Sims, chief of the technical security division of the Secret Service, which had installed and operated Nixon's secret recording system. Its existence had been publicly revealed by a former White House aide, Alexander Butterfield, on July 16 in the televised Senate Watergate hearings. He said Nixon had had the microphones installed in the summer of 1970 in his Oval Office, Executive Office Building hideaway and in the Cabinet Room to preserve a historical record. Most conversations on his business telephones also...
...describes herself as "the kind of middle-class, Jewish gal for whom the Radcliffe Institute was beyond reach"--says that there is a critical need to re-evaluate the role of women in the health care industry, particularly women in low and mid-level jobs. Although the program's focus is on women, it is tied in with the specific problem of ambulatory health care--any service that is provided outside of a hospital, whether in a doctor's office, in a clinic, or in the home, and including such things as preventitive care, diagnosis, and follow...
...order to take the edge off America's voracious energy appetite, Simon has gone along with some big price increases. That approach is swiftly becoming the focus of what little sharp criticism he gets. Simon is the obvious target for those dismayed by the soaring cost of fuel, because as FEO head he is the nation's energy price controller as well as policy planner and allocator in chief...
...monastery and a Mexican American parish, mainstream Protestantism by Manhattan's posh St. James' Episcopal Church and a Midwest Lutheran parish, the Jews by a Hasidic sect. Two segments are about black Christianity, one about a Jesus commune, one on Kundalini yoga. But the series' special focus is not on ways of worship but on individuals who have faith...