Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...committee assails the current focus of the Department of City and Regional Planning, arguing that it places "far too much emphasis" on policy analysis and social sciences, unwisely downplaying planning as a professional discipline...
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...main purpose of the center will be to provide a focus for the humanities and an opportunity for serious scholars in the humanities to do short-term research, Brooks, a member of the center's executive committee, said yesterday. "We hope to see this as a national center to serve a national purpose," Brooks said...
...jazz and assorted polyrhythms. "Fiesta," the finest track in this combination of styles, opens with guitars reminiscent of the Fronterizos, renowned exponents of Argentine folk music. Enter the jazz element. Barbieri overlays the backing with a spare yet haunting melody. Someone cries "Hey! Adentro!" and the guitars are the focus of attention before the horn brings in the melody again...
...sign that his beloved Boston was on the way down. Today the school-bullies are still a problem, but the method of dealing with them--at least in Massachusetts--has undergone radical change. Ever since the last Massachusetts training school closed in 1971, the state has been shifting its focus away from imprisonment of youth and towards community-based treatment and "preventive medicine" for potential juvenile offenders...