Word: focusing
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There will surely be other controversies at Palo Alto, but as the university embarks on its second century, Donald Kennedy is striving to focus its vital energies not on institutional power struggles and polemics but on "preparing new leadership for this society." Stanford trains talented students, he recently told an alumni group, "out of faith that their capacity for wise and compassionate leadership is the best possible guarantee of the survival of everything we think is important." It is an ambitious, perhaps even a utopian, undertaking. But it is exactly what Leland Stanford had in mind...
SECRETARY Bennett, however, believes that the way to prepare this country's youth for the future is to focus them on their own past. Bennett's concepts would nourish isolationism in American students, creating a inherent bias towards Western thought and an ignorance of other cultures. Unfortunately, his position as Secretary of Education provides a podium for his reactionary plans regarding higher learning, where Bennett displays the two distinguishing trademarks of his time in office: abject denial of facts and paranoid political conservatism...
...Clyde Prestowitz, a former trade negotiator for the Reagan Administration, suggests that the U.S. can do a better job of stimulating American sales in foreign markets. It is fine, for example, that the U.S. is now pressuring Japan to accept more beef and citrus products. But the Government could focus more attention on ensuring fair trade in high-tech industries that have greater strategic importance to the U.S. economy...
...Inmates focus on the more practical benefits of tutoring. "This school makes people more aware of what's going on around them," Connerty says. "So they can read their rights...
...have seemed like brilliance had Gore caught fire. He failed because he never developed a visceral connection with voters. On the stump, he tried to convey passion by shouting, but the volume seemed turned up in all the wrong places. Even in his commercials he had trouble conveying sincerity; focus groups rated as worst those that showed Gore speaking directly to the camera...