Word: focusing
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...decided to open her own gallery at the age of 39. She famously declared an intention to "buy a picture a day," but Guggenheim was no dippy dilettante. Around her she collected the best committee of art advisers imaginable, from Marcel Duchamp to Samuel Beckett, who urged her to focus on the contemporary. It was back in New York, where she and then husband Max Ernst had decamped to escape the war, that she hit the jackpot. One of the young artists she set her sights on was a custodian and art preparator at her uncle's then-budding museum...
...current Los Angeles city attorney has recently found himself once again the focus of the press—but not for something as minor as prosecuting the much-talked about socialite...
...candidate, he insisted that he is in the White House race to stay, despite the fact that his operation has blown through nearly all of the $24 million it raised and has been forced to shake up its top management, drastically cut its staff and narrow its focus to winning in a few early states...
...Stunned by the results, Democratic leaders launched polls and focus groups and strategy sessions. At the Democratic headquarters, even Dean, now chair of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), was getting into the spirit. He had seen the Democrats' share of the evangelical vote drop from 33%, when Bill Clinton ran, to 17% for Kerry. Dean's aides began asking state party chairs, Do you talk to religious press? Do you know any religious leaders, even? Ever think to organize them? The response came back, Well, no, not really. Like the national party, most local Democrats had always done their outreach...
...When Bill Clinton came along, he defied the stubborn conventional wisdom that had formed about the two parties' relationship to religion. A Southern Baptist who could literally quote chapter and verse, Clinton freely talked to publications like Christianity Today, made religious freedom a key focus of his domestic agenda and insisted his staff work with conservative evangelical leaders in addition to progressive religious allies. But in many ways, Clinton's personal comfort with religion and ability to act as his own religious liaison masked the ongoing problems of his party. Democratic leaders were happy to let Clinton sermonize. They...