Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Tierney blamed his loss on insufficient press coverage and a lack of aggressive fund-raising, but he chose to focus his concession speech on the positive aspects of his campaign...
...attorneys will argue that jurors could have perceived that the victim, who has since died in a Florida car crash, was more credible because cameras weren't allowed to focus...
...Last week's wild-on-the-Street gyrations of the stock market are likely to become just such a political symbol, playing on voter fears that the economy has been held aloft by illusion. As Democratic Pollster Geoffrey Garin puts it, "We've seen over and over again in focus groups that people have had a sense of huge bills coming due, with no one knowing how to pay them." The market collapse, he argues, "becomes a defining event for 1988, because the potential for tragedy, which was abstract a month or two ago, has now become real...
...regret personally and profoundly the article by Brooke A. Masters in today's Harvard Crimson ("Checkers Can't Do Math, Says Master Shinagel"). As you know, Quincy House has been the focus of much attention recently because of our interhouse policy...
...CHARACTERS of Weeds add to the general schizophrenia. Lee's benefactor and later his lover, Lillian, is presumably a serious proponent of Lee's talent. The first time we see her, however, the main focus is her exposed cleavage which jiggles while she applauds. When Lillian discovers that Umstetter has lifted his masterpiece from Jean Genet's Deathwatch, she couldn't care less. After all, she's the food and drama critic. The screenwriters make her a middle-aged Barbie Doll, and raise the role above its flimsiness...