Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Instead of a cold war, securing markets and halting an economic slide relative to Japan and rising economies like South Korea and Taiwan could become the focus of American foreign policy, experts...
...million. Police arrested 385, mostly for looting. The toll was modest, compared with the 18 killed, 400 wounded and $100 million in devastation wrought by the Miami riots of 1980. But like the '80 melee and conflagrations in '82 and '84, last week's upheaval brought into sharp focus the tensions that have grown for nearly three decades between native-born blacks and new arrivals from Cuba, Haiti and now Nicaragua...
...class America, AIDS seems a significant threat because a lot of their other problems are under control. But if you approach the poor in the inner cities, they don't see the disease as such a threat. They have so many problems besides AIDS that it is hard to focus on this one issue." People do not pay much attention to guidelines about safe sex, Weiss points out, if they have no home and little...
Kirshner says he has worked with supernovae for the past 17 years, ever since he started his graduate work in California. But even as a junior concentrator in Harvard's undergraduate Astronomy Department, Kirshner decided to focus on his present specialty, when he took a tutorial on the Crab Nebula, a supernova remnant...
Others, particularly those fighting for a starting position, focus their complete attention on the sport. The sport becomes an obsession. "Once you're starting, you want to make sure you don't mess up," Reidy says. "You want to know the plays twice as well as everyone else. You're running even harder in practice because you don't want to make mistakes...