Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Administrators say the plan, revealed last winter, would lessen the faculty office space crunch and provide a focus for undergraduate life, although some students remain skeptical...
...Soviet Union, the foe Japan believed it was destined to battle for domination of northeast Asia. The military men knew that while the Japanese archipelago was woefully short of natural resources, neighboring territories were not. First Manchuria, then the rest of the old imperial Chinese realm became the focus of Japan's rush toward autarky. And that quest for security would lead deeper and deeper into...
...booming market abroad for U.S. campaign operatives" was the subject of a recent cover story in the political-industry trade journal Campaigns & Elections. As the magazine enthused, "State-of-the-art television commercials and computerized voter files are spreading rapidly to other countries. American research firms are conducting focus groups for politicians worldwide." Like old-time vaudeville acts playing the Orpheum circuit, most of the top consultants have popped up somewhere in Latin America (primarily Venezuela, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Argentina and Bolivia) since the U.S. elections last November...
Holiday decided to sell its 37-year-old namesake so that the company can focus on its newer ventures, which include three hotel chains (Embassy Suites, Hampton Inns, Homewood Suites) and Harrah's casinos. The sale will also allow Holiday to reduce more than $2 billion of debt, most of it incurred during a 1987 battle to fend off a takeover bid by Donald Trump...
...most obvious speculations about Hitler focus on what would have happened if he had met more resistance, from the beginning. While Hitler's will to power seemed almost demoniac in its ferocity, that was partly because he encountered such feeble opposition. Starting in Germany, if the democratic forces had united against him, he would never have come to power. If even just the conservatives had opposed him, he could not have become Chancellor. And if the French had resisted his reoccupation of the Rhineland, his regime would have collapsed...