Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...these were the last rumblings of discontent or the start of a new wave of protests against the highest level of administration. In either case, most members of the Corporation clearly saw that not only was its credibility sorely lacking but tart the Presidency selection could easily become the focus for every battle-large and small-that had festered in the University since the Strike. For too long Harvard had seemed a place in limbo. The Faculty restructured itself, but as one professor active
...destruction of human lives by drugs, particularly among the young; the White House estimates that 50% of U.S. addicts are under 21. Nixon is also keeping an eye on the drug issue's political potential. The fallout from drug abuse in Viet Nam could continue to focus attention on the American presence there and make the war an issue even after troop levels are down to 40,000 or 50,000 next year...
...Harold Pinter's plays can be viewed as attempts to write the same play. Each new work appears to be another approximation of some Platonic ideal in which Pinter yearns finally to reduce a few characteristic themes and methods to their purest state, finally to narrow his focus to a vision of life in its quiddity. In these terms, Old Times, which opened last week in London, may be his nearest miss...
...sensitive radio telescopes operate much like their optical cousins. Instead of gathering ordinary light, they use their big reflectors to capture the radio energy from the invisible part of the electromagnetic spectrum. The curved surface of the antenna acts just like a lens, bringing the radio waves to sharp focus at a point in front of the dish. There they are picked up by a smaller antenna and piped into the telescope's electronic amplifier. The signals may be translated into audible sounds, traced out by pen-and-ink graph plotters and analyzed in detail by computers...
...operation in 1963 near Farmington, N. Mex., turned out to be a tremendous polluter. The gray plume from its smokestacks has been tracked by plane over 215 miles and was easily visible to the Gemini 12 astronauts from 170 miles in space. Now the whole complex has become the focus of the biggest environmental controversy since the discovery of Alaska's oil. Last week the Senate Interior Committee held hearings in each of the affected states to sort out the conflicting arguments...