Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mainly, our focus was on the personalities of the candidates, not on the intellectual strengths of the viewpoints they represented. "Leadership" and "judgement" were bandied about, much was made of whether the candidates were "nice" or "interesting" people, "people like us." But it really doesn't matter if a President is a bore, or if he sleeps around, or if his children all like him. The President is not our friend. He is both our leader and our servant, and the only thing that matters is his effectiveness in the public interest...
...Group, the campaign's talented ad team, struggled through August without direction. Hundreds of scripts languished unmade, including several excoriating Bush. Meanwhile, internecine warfare broke out among the team's big egos. One adman even sought to purge Dukakis' closet of tacky ties and ill-fitting suits rather than focus on creating a national ad campaign...
...time in which other schools were interested in shifting the focus of football toward soccer. Harvard rebuked the attempts and continued playing its own form of the sport...
...result of the Question 5 referendum won't in the least affect our congressional delegation, nor will it influence the Israeli coalition negotiations or the plans of the PLO this month. What might happen now that the referendum is in the past is that each "side" will shift its focus to the results and interpret them as vindication, and then everyone will go back to not thinking about the issue very intensely and not doing anything constructive...
...accordance with the social awareness focus of the series, the SAC has decided to donate proceeds from the production to the Boston Center for Independent Living, a nonprofit organization that helps people with disabilities find independent living quarters...