Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bennett's national antidrug strategy, to be announced formally on Sept. 5, will propose federal grants of $200 million to state and local police agencies for reclaiming crack-infested neighborhoods. Federal law-enforcement efforts would focus on the hubs of the drug-importation and -wholesaling industry: Miami, Los Angeles, New York City, Houston and the U.S.-Mexican border...
...capital-gains exemption for pension funds. New York City investment banker Felix Rohatyn believes that the funds' managers would then focus more on productive investment rather than on short-term speculation...
...immediate focus of the protests is a plan for restructuring the city council, put forward by Mayor Annette Strauss and the city council, that will be voted on in a special election this weekend. But black and Hispanic leaders say something more fundamental is also taking place. The civil rights movement that swept the South a generation ago somehow bypassed Dallas. Now, fueled by population shifts that have made blacks, Hispanics and Asians nearly half the population, the movement has finally arrived. Vows County Commissioner John Wiley Price, a black: "We're not going to sit back...
Most U.S. playwrights focus on home and hearth, but David Henry Hwang (M. Butterfly) has become an international hit portraying political megatrends...
...understand," He turned to me. I returned his look with a blank stare. I was clinging to the back wall, my brain slowly shifting focus from intense concentration on maintaining my balance in a moving object to the realization that someone was speaking...