Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There may be, of course, good reasons to vote for this amendment. If a campus-wide vote would increase interest in the council, I might vote for the amendment on that ground alone. I believe, though, that such attention will last two weeks each year and focus not on the council, but on a few individual personalities...
Nunn's Senate tenure reflects an eclectic mix of interests. National security is his primary focus, of course, and the keys to his influence are knowledge, timing and as little partisanship as possible. "By the time he starts talking about a subject," says Democratic Senator Carl Levin of Michigan, "he knows more about it than anybody else." "His real genius," says Republican William Cohen of Maine, "is to wait for the right moment to come up with a solution after allowing the sides to play themselves...
...real focus of last week's rescue effort was not the would-be Defense Secretary but the President himself. Determined not to retreat in their first showdown with Congress -- and no less determined to squelch the spreading impression that Bush is off to a feckless start -- the President and his aides shifted their goal from saving Tower's nomination to tarring the Democrats with charges of character assassination and hypocrisy. Positioning themselves for the inevitable future battles over the budget and foreign policy, the Republicans hoped to rescue something from the wreckage of the Tower affair by lowering Congress...
...time during this debate, however, did any minority advocates question controlled choice's effectiveness as a desegregation scheme. But when it became clear about two weeks ago that the new plan would pass the School Committee without Flynn promising new funds, these leaders shifted the focus of their attack. They called controlled choice a "farce" and a Trojan Horse for resegregation. Now they seem ready to sacrifice controlled choice itself for additional exposure of their concerns...
...while these campus organizations, including the Black Students Association (BSA), the Koreans of Harvard-Radcliffe (KOHR) and Raza, sometimes offer programs that provide minority students with an opportunity to express their cultural identities, many of them seem to be losing their focus...