Word: focusing
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...nation’s top graduates. After all, the economy will at some point recuperate, and positions at Wall Street firms will return. And when they do, our nation must still work toward increasing the appeal and prestige of public sector work. In the meantime, this increased focus on public service and education specifically should be appreciated. As students’ motives to pursue TFA may vary, so too will their backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives—and this diversity can only benefit our nation’s classrooms...
...Some people will question screenwriter Peter Buchman's narrow focus on two military campaigns - the successful rebellion that led to the taking of Havana, Guevara's disastrous operation in Bolivia nine years later - while ignoring Che's role in mass executions in Cuba after the revolution and his ill-advised adventures in West Africa (where Egypt's Nasser correctly predicted Guevara would be coming in as Tarzan among the natives). Others will wonder at the odd lack of dramatic incident among all the warfare. But you really can't argue with Buchman and Soderbergh about the movie they didn...
...Prize winner named to a presidential Cabinet (he won the Physics prize in 1997 for work involving lasers), Chu is "absolutely brilliant," according to Scott Anderson, a senior energy adviser for the Environmental Defense Fund. But more important, Chu - who put his research on hold in recent years to focus on climate change - understands that it will be technological leaps in the way we use energy that will truly whip warming, not U.N. summits...
...again at the conclusion of the program so that audiences could experience the piece without interference. Dorsky clearly intended the viewing experience to be completely undisturbed. “Sarabande,” the first film shown, was a montage of clipped, obscured, and often beautiful passages ranging in focus from anonymous people in transit to flowers and vegetation. More frequently than not, it was unclear exactly what the objects were—whether because the shot was too tight, too dark, or simply with too foreign a subject—leaving the viewer with little more than free-associative...
...district’s new leader be able to lead a diverse population and be willing to listen to public input, was generated from public feedback collected by Ray and Associates, the consulting firm hired by the district to oversee the search. In an online survey as well as focus group meetings held throughout the city, the public was asked to list the 10 characteristics that it would most like to see in the district’s new leader. At least one School Committee member, Patricia M. Nolan ’80, brought up an issue with the data...