Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Home Free's plot is aimless. The lack of focus--if intentional--may be an attempt to symbolize Gene's restless drifting, but again, it could have been handled more deftly. Wakefield is continuously showing him moving, from one university to another, one lover to the next, one town to the next. Everything moves but the plot--which is relentlessly stagnant. Everybody has a threshold of boredom. Home Free surpasses even the highest tolerance for sluggishness in fiction...
...must draw up individual education plans for disabled pupils. A costly procedure, it is subject to parents' approval. Unhappy parents can even take their grievances to court. But Paul Ackerman, director of the White House conference's education program, welcomes the parental clause. Says he: "We will focus ort the role of parents in exercising their rights, making parents realize that they are part of the school-parent team...
...root of Brown's thinking is his overall philosophy of defense. Says he: "To focus on the question of whether the U.S. might end up militarily No. 2 is to focus on the wrong question. The question should be: What are U.S. military needs? If the U.S. can meet its military needs, it is not in an inferior position. Then the outcome [of competition with the Soviet Union] will be determined not by that balance, but by all the other things?political will, social cohesion, economic capability, technology, agriculture...
...DEALING WITH AFRICA. What the President did was to ask me to focus on Africa and advise him. We have so many political areas, principally southern Africa, that require us to concentrate on them to see if we can devise some approaches that make sense. With Prime Minister Vorster, I will be discussing Namibia, Rhodesia and South Africa. This is going to be an in-depth attempt to deal with specifics with Vorster...
Harvard put two men on base in the second, fifth and sixth innings but poor baserunning and questionable calls by an out-of-focus umpire watered down the Crimson's attempts...