Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With the economic decisions behind him, Carter was free to focus most of his attention on the fight over energy. To improve the package's chances of passing the House despite the opposition of numerous powerful special interests, Tip O'Neill will assign it to a special committee headed by a friendly Democrat, Thomas Ashley of Ohio. Ashley in turn will farm out parts of it to seven House committees, which will be required to act within 75 or 90 days. In this way, O'Neill hopes to prevent opponents from blocking any elements of the package from reaching...
Archie C. Epps III, dean of students, said yesterday, "The weekend activities offer Harvard students of all races a chance to focus attention on the Afro-American experience...
After Gerken's match, the focus of attention turned to Todd Lundy's battle against Jon Molen at number two-the best match of the day. After the two players split closely-contested 6-4 sets, Lundy came on to win-you guessed it-a third-set tie-breaker...
Preston Pollock recognizes the paradox inherent in "New Boston." "The Christian Science Center is a combination of pompousass architecture and corporate necessity," snaps Pollack, an architect at Professional Designs Incorporated. The Christian Science Church and its world headquarters, Boston's answer to the Vatican, focus the contradiction between collective needs and private purpose: a corporate monument rising symbolically above the decaying tenements of the poor and turning its back on the human needs of urban working people unable to buy a decent human environment. Pollock is an architect who must deal with contradictions like that--his firm is employed...
...applies to all history including his own. But it includes a view of women that harks back to the era of courtly love, "It is no longer possible to 'fall in love'," he says early on, "But in the future and with the New Woman it will be." His focus is too narrow: he conceives of the New Woman rather than a New Voice, or a New Person. About the position of women in his future utopia he sounds suspiciously like Stokely Carmichael...