Word: focusing
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...Kiribati’s president, Anote Tong, delivered a stirring plea to a packed audience at the Science Center yesterday in which he urged audience members to focus their attention on the already salient repercussions that rising sea levels have on inhabitants of island countries...
...Tong, for whom this issue has been pressingly clear for over a decade, bemoaned the lack of interest and focus this problem has received on the international level...
...clear message to students would be to focus on their subjects in school...rather than spending enormous amounts of time and money trying to game the SAT and ACT,” he said...
...with many Law School students. Christel A. Green, a third-year law student, said she attended the event out of an interest in “economics and its effect on law and the best ways to help poor nations develop,” a subject that Sen has focused on for much of his career. In his lecture, Sen outlined the Enlightenment-era divergence in theories of social justice that produced two main philosophical positions: transcendental institutionalism, which focuses on the nature of a perfectly just society, and realization-focused comparisons, which compare levels of justice in societies...
...Communist Party - the authorities had to been seen as taking action. The public was thus informed of arrests of businessmen and resignations by top officials, including a provincial governor and the head of the state food-quality inspectorate. But "stability" also means not letting the blame game allow its focus to center too squarely on the party. Within days of the story breaking, the state media was commanded by the Propaganda Department to tone down its coverage of the tainted-milk-powder scandal. Lawyers looking to file suits on behalf of aggrieved parents were ordered in no uncertain terms...