Word: focusing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...drive and focus of the public service initiatives is to better account for the gap between what we stand for on the one hand, and the pressures on society on the other," Allison said in an interview last May. "These bigger loan burdens are precluding them [Kennedy School graduates] from making the biggest contribution to society they...
...recent months, the University's scantyacademic coverage of third world areas has becomethe practical focus of what had been only anabstract call by Bok that Harvard increase itsinternational ties...
...mere hallucination?) seemed frightening. A glimpse of monsters out there in the dark. People looked for a stirring of presidential energy, for both substance and symbol to announce that the most powerful office in the world was alive to the danger. What the world needed was focus, intelligence, communication. It needed to hear the voice of an adult. Editorial writers, columnists, businessmen and politicians cried in chorus, "Leadership! Leadership...
Like a phoenix rising from its ashes, Lucy pulls herself together. With the help of eccentric millionaire Hastings Lacey Jr. (Austin Pendleton), she opens up her own daycare center and becomes the focus of her own publicity campaign--all in a day's work. To make the fairy tale complete, on to the scene arrives the handsome prince, Dr. Scanlon (Gabriel Byrne), whose swarthy good looks win over Lucy's affections...
Petric said Imamura's films "aim in cinema toreflect the mentality of the Japanese people,"adding that Imamura's focus on his native culturehas contributed to his fame as a director. Petricsaid Imamura is "the most important director inJapanese cinema, together with [Akira] Kurowsawa."Kurowsawa's most recent film...