Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although the partially-constructed plant has been the focus of a prolonged controversy involving angry residents, critical public health researchers and the giant utility company Boston Edison, the idea behind the total energy plant is appealing in its simple rationality...
Minority leaders contacted this week said they are afraid students won't have enough input into the committee, and that it may not focus on the tougher problems minorities face here...
...meant to be a legislative body but a study group," Epps said. He had intended the committee to study how minorities and non-minorities interact here, not to focus on "other related issues" such as affirmative action policy and minority admissions, he said...
...must be a doctor's doctor; he must show very little hesitation or uncertainty. Tosteson does not speak fast; he takes time to think out what he is saying. Like the office of Dean Rosovsky in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Tosteson's office is spacious, and the focus of the room is on the comfortable furniture designed for conversation rather than paper work. Tosteson's desk looks almost insignificant against a back wall...
...work project designed to add to the resources of the Thomson center provides another focus for the students' group work. The current group of 30 is terracing a site, selected by both students and instructors, in an attempt to prevent soil erosion. The hillside site they chose is extremely steep, and the students must rely heavily on each other to work safely and effectively. The black and white students, who tote humus and wood girders together, who anchor one another as they climb up the hillside, certainly provide a sharp contrast with the students who walk the halls of Southie...