Word: focusing
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...Coverage [during a transition] is always superficial," says Marvin Kalb, director of the Shorenstein-Barone Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy and a former correspondent for CBS and NBC. "It does not focus sufficiently on the issues that are involved or the issues that face the upcoming administration...
Triptych plans to hold four other shows this year, said Kayyem. She said the next, set for December, will focus on music, and will probably include four or five of musicians playing original compositions in different styles...
Since it was founded in 1976, Yale's program has assumed the unusual role of training both future corporate leaders and government and nonprofit administrators. While that will continue, Schmidt plans to focus on traditional teaching methods. He hopes to end a debilitating feud between professors of standard academic subjects such as finance and accounting and those, chiefly in organizational behavior, who emphasize role playing and the importance of human relations in settling disputes. "Relations had deteriorated to where faculty members were barely civil to each other," said finance professor Stephen Ross. After last week's turmoil, a new class...
This dissatisfaction may have been partly because no overriding national issues gave focus to the campaign and partly because campaigning on less substantive issues brought success in the polls. Yet the basic problem is that the candidates want to control the process as much as they can. They want to avoid specificity and candor. With very few press conferences, no real debates (in which candidates actually ask each other questions), and mostly highly structured appearances, the candidates try to insulate themselves from detailed, comprehensive discussions of the issues. That format is certainly to their advantage, but not to that...
...PACKAGERS. Every campaign is less spontaneous than the last, as the candidates -- some eagerly and others grudgingly -- submit to the discipline of their handlers. The growing sophistication of such research techniques as focus groups and audience meters enhances the underlying cynicism of modern politics. As on Wall Street, success is measured solely by the bottom line -- never mind such idealistic notions as conducting a dialogue with the electorate...