Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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However, the MacFarquhar Report points out that turnover on the Faculty Council is no higher than that on most academic committees. It suggests that the usefulness of the new committees instead will lie in their ability to focus on long-range planning without becoming mired in day-to-day governance issues which occupy the Council...
While our now defunct Harvard Journal of Negro Affairs--published for several years--shared Outlook's interest in the many-sided issues of ethnic selfidentity, it extended its focus much farther afield, to national political and social concerns facing Afro-Americans. I hope further editions of Outlook do likewise. I did sense a tendency in the current Outlook to over-indulge selfidentity concerns--a tendency that leads ultimately to an intellectually stultifying narcissism...
...Panamanian government maintains the meetingshould focus on U.S. interference in Panama. Theopposition says the meeting should focus onelection fraud and political repression
...industry as a whole reaped record profits of $2.9 billion during 1988, a mark that most experts predict will be exceeded this year. The majority of the healthy airlines have put a renewed focus on improving service and employee morale. Says Alan Muncaster, a Northwest vice president: "We've been through a cultural change. There's a new philosophy stressing candor and cooperation...
...Shortly after that meeting, Bush signed a secret presidential finding authorizing the CIA to funnel $10 million into the opposition's political campaign. Their candidates insist that none of the money has reached them, but Noriega has capitalized on the U.S. interference to deflect the election's focus from himself...