Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Americans worried about the economic struggle between the United States and industrial East Asian nations, especially Japan, should focus their concerns on the cultural differences between the nations, an author of a new book on U.S. economic competitiveness said yesterday...
...issue that organizations such as the BSA focus primarily on social activites, I beg to differ. I am on the BSA's Executive Board and I know that we only have one committee specially designated for social activities. If people like Mr. Hsia would bother to look at the total organization, they would realize that social activities comprise only one of the various activities...
...combat the Jamaicans' quickness, the Crimson (5-0 overall) shifted the focus of its game from the backfield to its forwards--who responded with an unusually-high three trys. Sophomore forward Will Rava scored twice, and senior Mark Sagarin once as the Crimson shut down the Jamaican running game...
...Proposition 42, a plan that would raise the eligibility standards for athletic scholarships. Both sides of the argument claimed to speak for the disadvantaged. Some who opposed higher standardized-test scores tried to limit debate by labeling as racist or elitist those who favored such a change. But the focus of that debate was misplaced: too much attention was given to who gets in and too little to what happens to students once they are accepted...
Some of the agonies will be related to racial issues, but that is not the purported focus of Generations. Rather, insists executive producer Sally Sussman, who created the series and supervises the scripts, "these are going to be stories of character and emotion. We didn't do this to exploit discrimination, interracial romance -- any of these predictable ideas." Still, if the series succeeds in illuminating those issues in a fresh way, Generations may well go on for generations...