Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gregor I. McGregor, attorney for the defendants, said he has requested an initial hearing in U.S. District Court to be held on April 17. McGregor said the focus of this latest suit is on new environmental issues. NEWS ANALYSIS...
...students to with-draw, and recommended to the Faculty that it "dismiss" three others. In addition, 20 students received "suspended suspensions," and 99 others were placed on warning. The Committee of 15 gave way to the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities, another disciplinary panel that has been the focus of an almost continuous student boycott...
...script's uncertainty of tone. Alex's and Sheila's batty home lives are presented in such outrageous broad strokes that the credibility of the couple's supposedly sincere romance is under mined. There are a few funny peripheral moments, especially those that focus on the mores of video dating, but there are also stale gags about wayward cars and coitus interruptus. In this context, Altman's allusions to his better films are particularly depressing. Like Nashville, A Perfect Couple features a climactic death, weird minor characters who traipse mysteriously through the action, as well...
...With one party versus another the focus could well become politics for politics sake and substantive achievement an occasional fluke. In a world of parties the incentive for rational discussion decreases and it often simply becomes an issue of counting votes or, at best, a behind-the-scenes horse trading compromise among the party leaderships...
...lobbying organization, the Student Assembly only has power when it has broad student support. Therefore, no individual or group of individuals can "seize power" in the Assembly. Thus, political parties in the Student Assembly cannot damage student interests; they can only serve to focus student opinion...