Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Administration's first full week in power, the vaguely defined "new spirit" that Carter had invoked in his Inaugural Address was already beginning to take shape-and not only at banquets. After a transition period that had seemed slow paced and sometimes even wandering in its focus, the new President and his mixed team of Georgia chums and Washington veterans opened for business with considerable flair. Carter obviously meant it when he said during his campaign that he would be a "strong, independent and aggressive President." The new regime in its very first days not only made concrete moves...
...classified as rock. Only 5 of the 11 tracks qualify as songs. Bowie has shifted gears from singing to composing, and in his audio playpen of the latest electronic gadgets he has formulated an album of, not rock ballads, but cosmic tone poems. Unlike his earlier albums, the focus in Low is on environment rather than melody, on synthesized effects rather than traditional rock arrangements. The recording is impressive: textures are clear and sharply defined, bass tones are rich and highs are scintillating. Sound loses itself in the infinity of space. A leap of imagination and one could be transported...
Something may be moving to focus better the human dimensions of our society so as to erase barriers of birth and environment. For long, the struggle was about material needs. That is still the struggle in important ways. But the biggest battles of want have been won. Maybe Jimmy Carter is part of the beginning in refocusing our concerns on the intangibles of freedom, on the quality of our thoughts and actions...
...over. It has merely moved to a new battleground -Thailand. Prime Minister Tanin Kraivixien now calls the long-smoldering (at least eleven years) insurgency by Communist guerrillas the gravest threat to Thailand's internal security. Long ignored by Bangkok, the increasingly bold Communist attacks have become a focus of concern in the 3½ months since the military's National Administrative Reform Council swept aside Thailand's wobbly democracy (TIME, Oct. 18). In their armed struggle against Tanin's military-backed government, Communist guerrillas have killed more than 90 soldiers and police since October; unofficial estimates...
Cornell's approach was longterm, and its defense articulate. The spokesman, Pat Jeffries the actor, said, "Our analysis indicates Ginn should focus on the next fiscal year." Cornell recommended increasing the price of the paper and reducing the width of the page from...