Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...boycott will have trouble making the consumer aware of what brands not to buy. In addition, only 34 per cent of Stevens's sales are in consumer products; the rest is in sales to the government and in unfinished textiles to other manufacturers. As a result, the boycott may focus on forming local support groups which will ask local retailers and government agencies not to purchase Stevens products...
...derives from Erikson's determination to concentrate on the positive strengths of man's ego, rather than on the negative threat of the aggressive id, as Freud did. Erikson's work is full of words like "adaptation," "leeway," "growth," and "ingenuity;" he moves past Sigmund and Anna Freud's focus on the defenses that repress or rechannel erupting inner drives, emphasizing instead the "potentialities" of fuller ego-adaption, attained through a mutually reinforcing and self-fulfilling relation between psychology and culture. "'Leiben und arbeiten' (to love and to work)," Erikson wrote in Childhood and Society, quoting Freud's description...
...Judiciary Committee, where successive "decrim" bills have met defeat for the last five years running, Flaherty has been targeted for intensive lobbying by Oteri's office. The fact that Flaherty and Oteri are lifelong friends dating back from their childhoods in Southie has partially influenced Oteri's decision to focus on Flaherty...
...really haven't heard about these management-labor overtones yet--we intend to focus on all of the aspects and liabilities of the department," he said...
...Staff, the party has an imposing roster of intellectuals and former generals on its slate. Although voters fancy Yadin's attacks on corruption and demands for reforms in Israel's complex, indirect election system, many are puzzled by the new party's lack of ideological focus. Even so, pollsters predict that the D.M.C. could hold the balance of power in the new Knesset...