Word: focusing
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Influence Policy. The focus of their ire is the CBO's boss, Alice M. Rivlin, 46. When she came to the Hill as the first head of Congress's budget bureau in 1975, she had been a highly regarded working economist at that liberal Democratic enclave, the Brookings Institution. Maine's Senator Edmund Muskie, chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, personally steered her into the job. Now some of his-and her-colleagues in both parties wish her four-year term could be cut short...
...reason that Americans do not seem to focus on such problems as before may be that they have come to understand just how complicated some issues can be, how difficult to solve. Says Harvard Historian Frank Freidel: "More Americans are better educated now than ever before and more knowledgeable about national issues. They see many more facets of a problem." That can of course be a disabling kind of sophistication. So can the fact that Americans have been schooled since the early '60s to a certain cynicism about in formation from their leaders. Says California Pollster Mervin Field...
...pictured enjoying her own sensuality. As a photographer himself, Guccione is the best in the business at the narrow craft of what he calls "romanticizing the sexual encounter"; since the mystery used to be in what was concealed (but no longer is), Guccione has to work hard, with soft focus and Victorian props, to lend variety month after month to anatomical sameness...
Although Mcllvanney keeps this question hanging almost to the end, his focus is not on suspense but on a close-knit society's reaction to criminal outrage. Detective-Inspector Jack Laidlaw is assigned to catch the murderer, but he resents the assumption-especially rife among his fellow policemen-that this process is just the same as caging an animal. He argues, instead, that "monstrosity's made by false gentility. You don't get one without the other. No fairies, no monsters. Just people...
Bitter Fight. So ended the emotion-laden fight over a local statute that had become the focus of the homosexual rights struggle nationwide. The battle to repudiate the county's lawmakers was involved. Bryant's Save Our Children, Inc. rallied some 3,000 volunteers, who rang bells, sent out mailings, manned phones and chauffeured the elderly to the polls. The association won the support of a key conservative rabbi, fundamentalist Protestant clergymen and Roman Catholic Archbishop Coleman F. Carroll, who wrote an anti-statute message that was read to the faithful at Masses. In addition, the local...