Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more of the solar disk is blotted out, the sky darkens, and it becomes easier to gaze directly at the sun. While the visible light lessens, however, the pupils of the viewer's eyes dilate, allowing infra-red radiation from the still uncovered crescent of the sun to focus on his retinas. Although he feels no pain, the infra-red can quickly burn his retinas, causing irreparable damage to his vision. To avoid eye injury, medical authorities suggest that observers who look directly at an eclipse should do so only through at least two fully exposed photographic negatives that...
Accounting is not normally thought of as an exciting subject. But on Wall Street these days, it is the focus of intense interest. The notion has taken root that corporate profit reports are not always what they seem, and investors' suspicions have been nourished by the accounting profession itself, a staid club that is usually a model of gray-flannel decorum...
That "we have to focus on the fundamental issues. We must avoid violence, as the action soon becomes the issue and people lose sight of the cause for which the action was taken...
...make decisions about everybody's children, and then concoct theories and materials which can't fix even the superficial problems of the public schools. Meanwhile those schools, already the most totalitarian institutions in our society, are systematically destroying the souls of children. Dennison tells us that education must focus not on systems and materials but on the lives of individual children, and that it must be located in the communities that care for these children...
...second possibility would be through the development of the Public Policy Program instituted this year by the Kennedy School of Government. The focus of this program is presently on methods of problem-solving and their application to public administration, but the curriculum could be revised to place more emphasis on urban affairs...