Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Kimberly A. McClain '89, who founded the group with Hinton, said that minority organizations often have biracial members, but such groups usually focus on the political and cultural concerns of one race. Biracial students have a grounding in more than one race...
These lotteries became the focus of student discontent, but they are merely a symptom of the problem. While there is no feasible way to eliminate lotteries, a longer shopping period would clearly reduce their disruptive power...
Most of Bush's educational proposals focus on pre-college education. Among them are the following...
Quayle might be excused for feeling a bit frustrated by the focus on his looks. Well aware of his image as a lightweight, he carefully prepped for his first solo mission as a diplomat, a three-day, largely ceremonial trip to Venezuela and El Salvador. Still, the Vice President's handlers were nervous about a possible blunder. When the chartered plane that was to carry nearly 50 reporters along on the trip was abruptly canceled, there were suspicions that the idea was to limit press coverage...
...many citizens of Japan, where personal hygiene is paramount and high technology extends into just about every sphere of daily life. This combination has produced the enthronement of the bathroom as a focus for ingenuity and decorating style. "The Japanese have given up hopes of having a garden, and are spending money for comfortable dwellings," says sociologist Yukio Akatsuka. "The interest is now shifting from the living room to the bathroom." Though the seatless holes in the ground of stereotypical Western dread still exist in many parts of Japan, the newfangled WC is often a marvel of gadgetry...