Word: focusing
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...want zombies and werewolves and all that," said Reid Hoffman, the brilliant entrepreneur who founded LinkedIn in May 2003, during a particularly bleak part of the dotcom meltdown. He told me that if his social network offered 60 applications a year from now, "we'd be very happy. The focus is on quality, not quantity...
...Still, to only focus on Stevens' venality is to miss the deep - and requited - love he had for his constituents during his more than 40 years in public office. Don Mitchell, an Anchorage attorney who for years was the Washington, D.C., council for the influential Alaska Federation of Natives, is no fan of Stevens' politics. But he called Stevens a "stalwart friend" of the 100,000 Alaska natives. For three decades, Stevens made a point of channeling appropriations to fund projects that mattered most to the state's native communities. At the federation's annual meeting this past weekend...
...dinner to present its Outstanding Supporter and Outstanding Alumnus awards. The weekend was a continuation of Sustainability Week and marked a reorganization of the PBHA Alumni Association (PBHA-A) with events on service and networking. According to PBHA-A leaders, the association has a new structure intended to focus on bringing alums back to campus to provide current undergraduates with networking opportunities. Grace C. Hou ’06, secretary of PBHA-A, said the weekend emphasized the goals of the alumni organization to promote professional networking and public service and public interest opportunities, especially in light of the current...
Paarlberg acknowledged that, given recent economic events, the next president will be expected to focus his energies on fixing the current domestic problems...
...would not jeopardize their position.”Wisse and Mansfield also charge that what they see as the liberal slant of the faculty has led the College to omit certain specialties from the curriculum, such as military history and conservative political and religious theory.Departments with a quantitative focus, however, may have a more balanced composition of their faculty.Markus M. Mobius, an associate professor of economics, said there are a number of professors in the department who are conservative and “make no secret of that.” Mobius, who has donated to McCain twice, said...