Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hetty Liem, a full-time genetic engineer at Cambridge-based Genzyne, Inc., says she will be a "night person" around Dunster this summer. She says she will focus on house social activities rather than academic advising this year...
...Liem--a committee member of the Harvard Foundation--says he will not use his position to focus solely on minority issues...
Under his curatorship, the Nieman Foundation--which offers prominent journalists the chance to study at Harvard free from the pressures of deadlines--broadened its international focus, offering fellowships to writers from Latin America, China and South Africa...
...review of the Core Curriculum--issued last May at its 10-year anniversary--found a main problem with the QRR to be its "extracurricular" status. Because there is no required coursework unless a student is unable to pass the two exams, undergraduates tend to "focus their attention on passing the tests rather than learning the material," the report concluded...
...tests, it is also true that with the more difficult tests of this year, the two issues are not so easily separable as in the past. It may be possible that better tests, perhaps including essay questions, and some revisions to the current content will result in a stronger focus on learning the material...