Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard administration. Ironically enough, these three black admissions officers were used by the admissions office to justify the discontinuation of recruitment by black students. This assertion was of course ridiculous, as the black admissions officers numbered three out of a staff of 20 and were not allowed to focus exclusively on increasing black(or any Third World) admissions...
...women's studies committee's primary objective is to persuade the University to hire more faculty trained in women's studies and create more undergraduate courses which focus on women, members said last night...
FILMS, NOVELS and poetry start at one place, follow a consistent course to another and hopefully make a point somewhere along the way. Recorded pop music, however, has chronically suffered from a lack of thematic focus--the aural equivalent of short story collections, pop records often veer crazily from love song to drinking song to torch song to instrumental. As often as not, the only factor holding the individual works together--if, indeed, anything does at all--is stylistic, the musical presence of the performer. An overriding theme must, of necessity, go by the boards; the constraints of the medium...
Lawrence E. Fouraker, dean of the Business School, said yesterday Harvard MBA's earn more money than graduates of any other American business school because the Harvard MBA program is designed to "produce general managers to lead all sorts of business organizations," whereas other schools focus on research...
...seminar will focus on some of the strategies mayors use to deal with federal, state and local agencies, and will feature guest speakers of the mayor-elect's choice...