Word: focusing
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...Well I guess I don’t really do much for a big match. For me the big challenge is not being too nervous. When I first started fencing, I was too nervous to eat breakfast or really talk to anyone. Now my main focus is to breathe and keep my breakfast down...
...whatever you want with it.’ If you do, the money might not be well-spent.” Cambridge Mayor Kenneth E. Reeves ’72 agreed with Harding’s assessment. “In education, if you don’t focus on a few things, you can get lost,” Reeves said. Nolan retaliated with statistics from the 2005 fiscal year that compared Cambridge school expenditures with those of two other top public school districts in Massachusetts, Brookline and Somerville. According to the statistics, Cambridge schools spent far more...
...loyalty to a somewhat arbitrary vision of general education as “real-world application” runs the risk of repeating some of the most atrocious failures of the current Core Curriculum. Though numerous, these failures can be grouped into two main categories. First, thanks to their focus on “ways of knowing,” Core classes tend to focus on limited and somewhat obscure topics that are great for cocktail party banter but hardly form the basis of a truly general education. Second, the Core presents such a limited menu of classes that...
After the game, even Tony Dungy himself deflected praise placed upon him, instead dedicating his achievements to those who have come before. That’s where our focus should...
...switching between hitting and setting positions.“It’s definitely a totally different mentality going from hitting to setting,” Weintraub said. “Hitting, you go up hit as hard as you can, and so it’s a single focus. But as a setter, you have to know what each person needs to get them going, what’s their type of ball, whether they need encouragement, whether they need to be yelled at, what do you need to get each person going. You’re kind...