Word: focusing
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...reason is not that the community pillars have suddenly gone wrong en masse. On the contrary, the Jaycees have never been more responsible or achievement-oriented. In fact, a keen awareness of civic duty has led the organization to focus on new causes. In Philadelphia last month, Jaycees met with Black Panthers to rap on drugs and a sickle-cell anemia testing program; a group in Seattle is hoping to help set up halfway houses for parolees. The most important new approach centers on an aggressive drive to attract members in the nation's prisons. There...
...last of the Ottoman sultans, Abdul Hamid, was exiled to Salonika with a few of his favorites; 370 concubines, old or second-rate by the Sultan's standards, and 127 eunuchs were set free. Now the Turkish Ministry of Culture is planning to make Topkapi Palace the focus of a "cultural revolution" featuring concerts, poetry recitals, ballet and re-enactments by the National Theater of the tragedy of Ibrahim...
There are more than 240,000 Jews in the Baltimore-Washington area, and the doctors decided to focus on those most likely to bear children: 80,000 people between the ages of 18 and 43. To reach and test this high-risk population, Kaback and Zeiger sought the support of local rabbis and leaders of Jewish organizations. Few refused to provide it. Rabbis took to their pulpits to inform their congregations about the disease and to urge them to participate in the experiment. Jewish women's organizations not only distributed thousands of leaflets but provided volunteers to conduct...
CALIFORNIA has become a prosperous country, and San Francisco Bay, so lovingly described by Seaman Dana in Two Years Before the Mast, is the focus of West Coast commerce. But the Bay has paid a heavy price for its material wealth. It is now one-third covered by landfill; the surrounding hills are blanketed by houses and newly rising skyscrapers; its waters are threatened by pollution. Other U.S. shorelines, along which about 75% of the population and nine of the nation's largest cities are located, are suffering the same environmental deterioration. If Dana were to retrace his 19th...
Author Forsyth seems less efficient. In chronicling the plots and ploys of the Jackal and his enemies, he produces far too many shifts of focus, step-by-step itineraries and logistical minutiae. He inventories the furnishings of De Gaulle's office, and feels compelled to specify that the chauffeured, black Citroën DS 19s circle the courtyard of the Elysée Palace counterclockwise. But on such things as how to steal a passport or select an assassination site, his expertise is extraordinarily compelling...