Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...assembled by associate editors Marguerite Johnson, who wrote the cover story, and William Smith, who helped prepare the accompanying stories. The effort, as Talbott noted, showed "how TIME uses the close collaboration of its correspondents and editors to bring a major late-breaking news event into quick and sharp focus...
...Mark's Gospel McCowen has found a vehicle perfectly suited to his range. For the material most resembles an extended song cycle. Nuance, focus and miniaturized drama are the order of the evening. Piety aside, the broader and deeper emotions are not often invoked. The performance unavoidably remains a bit rarefied, which is no doubt why it is booked for a three-week run in the small (249 seats) theater of Manhattan Marymount College. After a similarly modest beginning in London, however, it escalated into one of last spring's solid West End hits. McCowen is scheduled...
...many New Yorkers, the dispute that led to this year's walkout remained only dimly understood. Though all ten of the city's newspaper unions are by now either officially on strike or honoring the picket lines, the focus of the fracas is a once mighty, now waning band of newsprint-hatted yeomen, the pressmen. Not to be confused with printers, who set the type?and whose ranks have been thinned by automation in recent years ?pressmen are the strong-limbed fellows who start, stop, replate, ink, wipe and otherwise keep the presses rolling. Automation has not much altered...
...will get worse," notes California Law Professor Preble Stolz. "With legal problems, that's not always so clear." Although a few insurance companies sell group legal insurance, some major companies have tested the legal market but are holding off waiting for larger public demand. Labor negotiators have begun to focus on legal plans as a fringe benefit. Such coverage, says Claude Lilly, director of an American Bar Association study of prepaid plans, may be "just as common ten to 15 years from now as prepaid medical is today...
...matter who decides sentencing, says Richard Kuh, former New York County D.A., the focus of plea bargaining should not be on "spinning the revolving doors of the courthouse." It should be on "the defendant's rehabilitation or the public's protection." Says Chicago Law School Professor Franklin Zimring: "Because of plea bargaining, I guess we can say, 'Gee, the trains run on time.' But do we like where they're going...