Word: focusing
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...commission veered from its central focus to such recent issues as food and product safety, which also affects foreign consumers of Chinese exports. The report praised Beijing for reforms, but complained of "inadequate and inconsistent implementation, corruption and a lack of regulatory incentives." Worse, the government discouraged consumer organizations and harassed people for reporting problems with consumer products. Likewise, environmental reforms have been hampered by uncooperative local authorities and official suppression of green activists and the free flow of information, the report said...
Faust’s friends and colleagues expect that instead of emulating Summers’ speech, she will broaden her scope and focus on Harvard’s leadership role in higher education, and the responsibilities that come with...
...first few months in office, Faust has publicly identified a few broad themes that she will focus on, including uniting the University’s traditionally solipsistic units, improving relations with the greater Cambridge and Boston communities, and ensuring that Harvard continues to recruit students and professors of diverse backgrounds...
According to Megan, future programming for the NCT will focus on educating students as much as giving them the chance to perform...
...scientific authority on global warming, the IPCC has issued four assessments - the most recent this year - taking the current temperature of climate change. Reading the successive reports, which grow more and more confident about the reality and the danger of climate change, is like seeing an image fall into focus. Drawing on the work of so many scientists, which must then be approved by national representatives, the IPCC tends to the conservative - so its dire conclusions are all the more authoritative and chilling. But global warming is global, and the very existence of an impartial IPCC, in the face...