Word: focusing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...There are other promising Democratic candidates, and isn't global warming an issue important enough that there should be someone as competent as Gore to give the U.S. - and the rest of the world - an ecological conscience? It is a tough challenge to save the world. Please, let him focus on that! He shouldn't be distracted by a run for the presidency. Tanja Schwarze, OLDENBURG, GERMANY...
...rare interviews over the past few months, President-elect Drew G. Faust has steered clear of making precise commitments to improving student life, preferring to focus on reforms to undergraduate education instead. FAS administrators have taken a similar tack, arguing that it is time to follow several big-ticket social initiatives with a costly push to modernize the curriculum...
...banner year for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). With the drama surrounding former University President Lawrence H. Summers firmly behind it and a trusted leader, interim Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles at the helm, the Faculty would finally be able to focus on reexamining pedagogy and completing an inspiring curricular review. FAS would be primed for a heady future after the handover to a new dean at the end of the year.If only it were so. Instead, leadership shake-ups, a budget deficit, pedagogical malaise, turf wars, and damaged relations with students were the common threads...
...Feeding off what he called the “excitement, energy, and enthusiasm” of the crowd, as Chenault put it in a post-speech interview, he tried to broaden his audience’s horizons. “What I try to do is focus on some issues that will stretch people in their thinking,” he said. “Particularly for someone graduating, it is important to understand the responsibilities and accountabilities that they have to the society.”Central to his argument was a call for strong ethics...
...think our power plays were one of our strengths through most of the season,” captain Dylan Reese said. “The BC game overall in terms of our goals scored against our special teams was our best.” The Crimson’s focus was on defense during the second period, but in the final frame, Harvard gave the Eagles a taste of their own medicine, slamming 10 shots at the net. Nearly seven minutes into the third period, junior Alex Meintel finished off the second rebound after Maki and sophomore Brian McCafferty attempted...