Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Health Letter does not advise readers on health matters but reports on new medical trends and health issues that become the focus of media attention, Goldfinger said...
Gibbs himself, however, is the real focus of Gibbs Day. Each year at this date a snow sculpture of Gibbs's head appears by immaculate precipitation behind the Busch-Reisinger Museum and in front of the Gibbsian temple, a monumental temple on the Harvard campus disguised as a laboratory. On normal work days the group uses this "lab" to manifest their belief in X-ray diffraction as the key to solving the world's great problems. But on Gibbs Day, the X-rays are extinguished; the day's only pseudoscientific activities are the barometer and thermometer readings that precede...
...said she will first present a general theoretical background, and in subsequent lectures focus on the issue of truth-telling in such fields as medicine, law, politics, journalism and family relations...
...generation of increasing division of labor and greater economic productivity has transformed French society and the French alike. The focus of French life has shifted from the small village to the industrial metropolis; less than 10 per cent of the French are employed in agriculture. A five-fold increase in the number of working women signals an important shift in social mores. An extensive transportation network and greater radio and television penetration has forced provincial peasants to attempt to grapple with and understand the ideas and values of a technocratic society while their old traditions are repudiated by those ostensibly...
...course will focus on questions such as, "How much criticism of a student's paper is too much?" and "How do I honestly and fairly evaluate a pile of papers when I can hardly stay awake...