Word: focusing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Gender Differences 40% Percentage of U.S. women who closely followed recent news stories on tornadoes in the South and Midwest, compared with only 25% of men. A new study finds that women focus more on stories about weather, health and safety 40% Percentage of men who closely followed stories on tension between the U.S. and Iran; 27% of women tuned in. Men generally favored sports, politics and international affairs in the study...
...weekend, where it will face Rutgers-Newark for the second time this season.“If we play like we did [last night] and [last] Tuesday, there’s going to be no contest,” Weitzen said. “We really just need to focus on these two losses and realize what happened, and I think that in itself will definitely change. It needs to change. If we want to make the playoffs, this game’s pretty much a must-win.”—Staff writer Courtney D. Skinner...
...grant will fund a three-year program by the Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group, aimed at finding methods to reduced greenhouse gases. The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation chose to give Harvard funds from its $100 million Climate Change Initiative because of the University’s prolonged focus on the issue, according to Kelly S. Gallagher, director of the Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group. “The fact that Harvard has a ten-year history of studying policy for energy innovation was the decisive factor in Harvard winning this grant,” she said. The grant...
...scooped ice cream with a couple summers ago had this thing with his boyfriend where they would experiment with different during-the-act comments aimed at getting one another to lose focus. He and I would brainstorm on our shared-shift, and came up with some pretty good ones before I eventually got fired for fainting on the waffle cone display. Gems like, “you and me, baby,” (repeated over and over with increasing intensity), and The Boner Challenge (only calling it Boner (“Stick your boner...
...Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice did talk about tackling some of the deficiencies cited by Miranda when she spoke to students at Georgetown's School of Foreign Service Tuesday. She's changing the training, focus and culture of the foreign service, she said. Rice wants to beef up career development programs for mid-level managers. She wants to phase out the foreign service tradition of having a cadre of generalists in favor of being able to deploy diplomats and civilians who have the specialized experience to address the specific needs of a post-conflict country. Rice has also talked about...