Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Vietnamese liberation forces decided to change tactics, as they had so many times before in their three-decade struggle to free their country. They would shift the focus of the struggle and compete with Thieu peacefully, on political terrain...
...problems with health care in this community are not acute. There are adequate resources, competent people, accessible administrators. Issues to mobilize around are hard to find. But it is the fact that so much is "given" that affords us the opportunity to focus on the more subtle, but all-pervasive issues in the structure of medical care, the issues that really affect our chances for achieving the goals I outlined above. There is a lot to do here. I'm leaving because one person can only stay in the middle for so long. I'll cast my lot with...
...trial brings into rare public focus the strange status of prostitution in Poland and other East European countries. Officially it does not exist. According to Communist dogma, the world's oldest profession is an evil peculiar to capitalism and has no appeal in a socialist state. In fact, prostitution flourishes in many parts of the East bloc, and nowhere is it more evident than in the big-city hotels frequented by Westerners...
...focus of activity is a group of clubs d'animation or vitality clubs that meet in age-integrated apartment houses or former youth centers, recently renamed maisons pour tons-houses for all. With several generations sometimes joining in, the 6,000 club members go on excursions, hold parties and attend arts-and-crafts classes taught by trained OGPA instructors. They also run bazaars to sell the products of their newly developed skills, using the profits to help finance visits to local museums, French mountain resorts and even foreign countries. Last year a branch of OGPA called the Third...
...conduct becomes unacceptable. Potter Stewart, William Brennan, William Douglas and Thurgood Marshall constituted a dismayed minority. As Stewart said: "The purpose of the entrapment defense cannot be to protect persons who are 'otherwise innocent.' Rather, it must be to prohibit unlawful governmental activity in instigating crime." The focus, in other words, should be not on the defendant but "on the conduct of the undercover Government agent." A friend-of-the-court brief filed in the Russell case by the A.C.L.U. had contended that the rule against entrapment had not stopped undercover agents from fostering serious crimes -such...