Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hanged in his cell at Brewarrina, New South Wales, in 1987. Bernard McGrath used a strip of toweling in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, to strangle himself. McGrath's relatively minor offense: violating probation after conviction for driving without a license. A few cases involve charges of police brutality, while others focus on the failure of police to realize that a prisoner was seriously...
...Some focus heroically on the bright side. "It's exciting," says Monroe Scharff, a Bush neighbor. "How often do you find a beautiful place that is ; also the summer residence of the President of the United States?" And selectman Joe Finn trumpets, "We've been in the London Times and the Hong Kong Daily News...
...slow the dollar's fall by pegging it to other nation's currencies or by setting target ranges. In order to act with maximum efficiency, Feldstein believes the Federal Reserve Board should let markets determine the value of the dollar (however low that may be) and focus its monetary weapons on controlling inflation at home...
...help focus its coverage, TIME invited 33 scientists, administrators and political leaders from ten countries to a three-day conference in Boulder in November. The group included experts in climate change, population, waste disposal and the preservation of species. In addition to explaining the complexities of these interlocking problems, the specialists advanced a wide range of practical ideas and suggestions that TIME has fashioned into an agenda for environmental action. That agenda, accompanied by stories on each of the major environmental problems, appears throughout the following pages...
...eclipsed by Ryzhkov in news reports. Gorbachev may have good reasons for turning the reconciliation work in Armenia over to others. His prestige there . has plummeted since Moscow refused to recognize Armenian claims to Nagorno- Karabakh, a predominantly Armenian enclave in neighboring Azerbaijan that has been the focus of ethnic strife for the past ten months...