Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carter wanted to focus attention on two broad areas, the economy and evolving foreign relationships, while persuading his listeners that he had a sensible long-range strategy for dealing with both. With a view toward the politics of 1980, he hoped to come across as the cool, realistic leader. His delivery in a packed hall of the House of Representatives matched his message. Dressed in sober dark blue, standing so straight that his back almost arched, he spoke more haltingly than usual because he had the beginnings of a cold. There were the customary odd pauses and the staccato delivery...
Well, no. A night's sleep, a warm bright morning and a big grits breakfast begin to focus facts. The breakfast (paper plate, plastic knife and fork) is at the Kountry Korner Restaurant. I've been advised that a trace of old Plains may be found here. And here indeed is more than a trace: eight middle-aged farmers at one long table talking land, bean planting, the future of Taiwan ("You think the Taiwans got a word to say about it? Think 1 billion can't take 17 million any day they want...
...White House. Vice President Walter Mondale, Vance, Brzezinski and Ambassador-designate to China Leonard Woodcock were scheduled to join Carter. According to U.S. officials who have drafted an agenda, the first major subject was to be a general review of global issues. The talk is virtually certain to focus on China's obsession: Soviet activity around the world. Other likely topics include such crisis situations as Viet Nam's rout of the Chinese-supported regime in Cambodia, the Shah's departure from Iran, tensions in southern Africa...
...Chicago Tribune's weekly television guide, has had enough. "I thought your show was in very bad taste," she says. "I kept wondering, why is it necessary to spit on the windshield? Why so much tobacco juice? Why such high sexual content? The camera seemed to focus a lot on men's behinds...
...weeks ago Dominguez returned to Cuba, the country where he spent the first 16 years of his life and the focus of much of his research, for the first time since 1960. He lectured at the Cuban Academy of Science, giving what he called "a standard Gov 40 lecture on alternative approaches to the study of U.S. foreign policy...