Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cults issue was thrust into harsh focus by last November's carnage at the Peoples Temple commune in Jonestown, Guyana. The most dramatic moments of the four-hour hearing came from Jackie Speier, a legislative counsel who accompanied the late Congressman Leo Ryan on his fatal visit to the Rev. Jim Jones' headquarters and survived gunshot wounds. Speier stated that there are 10 million cult members in the U.S. and warned: "The most important fact about Jonestown is, it can happen again...
...letter of resignation, Clifford, whose real estate dealings have been the focus of controversy, said, "I have been unfairly attacked by innuendo and improper inference, but I recognize that these attacks have made it difficult, if not impossible, for me to be effective...
Johnson supporters say that Terrance is one more black victim to P.G. County racism. White residents, the police and country officials instead focus on the two policemen slain on duty as the real victims in the case. But really, Johnson, the two policemen, and the torn P.G. community itself, like America in general, are all victims of a long-lived, deep-rooted racism that seems as hard to overcome now as it has ever been...
Joanne Caplan, one of the show's producers, said she decided to focus on the children of migrant workers in upstate New York. "I heard about Laura, who was going to Harvard, and figured what better way to tell the story than through someone who's been through it," she said...
...more difficult idea, full of cosmic violence. Most astronomers now accept the theory that the universe had an instant of creation, that it came to be in a vast fireball explosion 15 or 20 billion years ago. The shrapnel created by that explosion is still flying outward from the focus of the blast. One of the fragments is the galaxy we call the Milky Way - one of whose hundreds of billions of stars is the earth's sun, with its tiny orbiting grains of planets. The so-called Big Bang theory makes some astronomers acutely uncomfortable, even while...