Word: focusing
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...faculty advisers and student members had been delighted that we had made it through the academic year without any publicly divisive racial conflict. We had, however, spoken too soon, as the Quad incident occurred late in the year. Furthermore, many articles and comments about what happened shifted the focus of the discussion from the deplorable nature of the Quad incident to quotes attributed to me, which in the eyes of some served to exacerbate racial and religious tensions on campus...
...river landscapes be extended to allow more waterfront space to be developed. “First we recast the image of the city for them, second we propose some very select but provocative changes in the form of the city,” Sommer said. Sommer said that the focus of the class, sponsored by the Belfast Harbour Commissioners and Titanic Quarter Limited, a waterfront development firm, is to find ways to “recast the image of the city” and “knit the port back to the city center.” Belfast, which...
...Although demands for military action are increasing, some caution that Turkey should focus instead on better integrating its Kurdish minority into society. "The military are putting the pressure on the government" says Altan. "But the Kurdish problem is one that needs to be solved by democratic means, not military ones." As part of its European Union accession bid, Turkey passed a number of reforms designed to improve human and cultural rights for its Kurdish population, estimated at 20 million of Turkey's total 71 million. But that process has stalled amidst backlash from some European leaders opposed to Turkey joining...
...Iran's top negotiators, Ali Larijani, also seemed to hedge carefully when asked if the talks would focus exclusively on Iraq, as called for by the U.S., or whether they might also include other points of contention. "Talking with the U.S. over issues related to Iran is not an impossible matter," Iran's state news agency, IRNA, quoted him as saying. "However, this depends on the subject matter...
...working with massive plates of rolled steel. As it turned out, the most famous of those would be Tilted Arc, a 120-ft.-long curving steel wall that was commissioned by the U.S. government for the plaza outside a federal courthouse in lower Manhattan, only to become the focus of a huge public battle in the late 1980s when some office workers complained that it had laid claim to so much of the plaza as to make the space unusable. (For the record, they had a point.) When the feds decided to remove the work, Serra sued the government...