Word: focusing
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...offer no miracle cure," says Schlesinger. To the contrary, practically all of the elements likely to turn up in the new plan have been discussed-though, alas, not acted on-for years. Schlesinger's group already has general principles sketched out. It is clear that the policy will focus on what Washington has begun to call "the two Cs": conservation and coal. First, tough conservation measures must be taken so that the nation can buy time to develop well-considered alternatives to oil and gas as fuels. Next, a determined effort must be made to get many power plants...
There is also some question as to why Brzezinski selected Huntington, whose major academic focus recently has not been U.S.-Soviet relations but the politics of the developing third world. Several weeks ago Carter administration sources intimated that Huntington was being considered for a number of other positions which, unlike the one to which he has been appointed, require confirmation by the Senate. Apparently, however, the Carter floaters of a Huntington nomination produced a response indicating that a significant proportion of both the public and Senate harbored reservations about Huntington because of his well-known political views...
Another reason we oppose the adoption of the relative transcript is that it will cause a decrease in the overall grade point average. Relative transcripts will create a focus upon each faculty member's grading policy, which will lead to considerable pressure on faculty, especially those in non-tenured positions, to lower their grades. Were this proposal implemented at your school, Harvard graduates would find themselves at a greater disadvantage when competing for jobs or entrance to graduate school because their grades had declined, while grades at other institutions remained at current levels...
...significant attempts at educational reform begun in the last decade. The notion of courses which are selfpaced or use contract grading, for example, which allows for student evaluation according to self-determined set criteria will be downgraded in importance because graduate and professional schools will focus their attention on courses which were graded relatively. Faculty will probably be forced into a grading-on-the-curve system, rather than one which is realistically geared to what students actually learn in a course...
Irven Hershenbaum, the director of the Cambridge-Somerville support group, said yesterday he plans to focus on Harvard students because he found them "very responsive" to the farmworkers' cause...