Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...There is a whole range of problems that have been with us in spite of AIDS," Hiatt says. "Insurance, confidentiality, sex education, drug abuse--all of those problems have been with us. AIDS has put them into sharper focus...
...election year that pits former Kennedy School lecturer Dukakis against Vice President George Bush, has the focus suddenly turned outward...
...Bengal." In reality, however, the low-lying delta country, laced and often lashed by three great river systems, is still a "basket case," the cruel epithet thrust upon it at the time of its independence. A calamitous series of floods, cyclones and war-inflicted suffering have made it a focus of international concern from its inception...
While the backfield will be the focus of the attack, that doesn't mean that the forward pack will be the weak link...
ALTHOUGH these organizations focus on diverse issues, their complaints have a common orientation--fairness--and a common target--elitism. But they lack a unified spokesman. The Undergraduate Council, which funds these groups, would seem to make a helpful advocate: the nominal undergraduate representative would seem to be the natural leader for efforts for student justice. But last year students found that the council would not champion their cause. Instead of battling sexism in the final clubs, the council balked and seemed more interested in equitably representing the students who buy into elitism here, than backing institutions open...