Word: focusing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...guess I didn’t realize I was,” Chu said humbly, breaking into a huge smile. “We focus on how the team is performing, how we’re playing, the effort level, and that was our biggest focus there...
...Call us cynical, but we have seen many UC presidents promise too much and deliver too little, especially when trying to advocate for dramatic changes to the administration. While Petersen and Sundquist’s detailed planning is commendable, they need to make sure that the UC starts by focusing on the few important issues that will come to define their tenure. Even with 50-odd uncompleted promises, three big victories would constitute a successful year at the helm of the UC.Petersen and Sundquist have wasted little time with pleasantries and have hit the ground running. The UC opened...
Oddly, the focus of FemSex is purely sexual liberation. Despite the numerous other issues confronting the modern woman, the class focuses eight out of 10 sessions on sexual and/or anatomical exploration. The syllabus seems to suggest that sexual liberation is a woman’s only path to empowerment—funny, I thought that was law school. Where are the seminars focused on women in corporate America, or women in the military? By diversifying its syllabus, FemSex might lose its shock value, but it would be able to address a broader range of concerns and appeal to more students...
...When you play in the moment, the points and the goals are secondary,” Chu said. “We focus on the team’s [performance...
...issues like poverty and economic justice, global warming, HIV/AIDS, sex trafficking, genocide in Darfur and the ethics of the war in Iraq. Catholics are returning to their social teaching; mainline Protestants are asserting their faith more aggressively; a new generation of young black and Latino pastors are putting the focus on social justice; a Jewish renewal movement and more moderate Islam are also growing; and a whole new denomination has emerged, which might be called the "spiritual but not religious...