Word: focusing
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Crespo said he does not plan to focus on changing the HLR’s structure or article selection process when he takes over at Gannett House, the journal’s headquarters on the Harvard Law School campus, but rather that one of his top priorities will be to increase diversity in the newsroom and to improve outreach. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...
...want to focus on recruiting the best individuals to make sure that we have a solid and diverse class coming in,” he said...
...Chivian ’64, later called the environmentalists’ criticisms of Charles “a rather low blow that really missed the point of the entire award.” “He’s really been an environmental champion, and rather than focus on his flight, they should have focused on his achievements,” Chivian said in an interview yesterday. Former Vice President Al Gore ’69, last year’s winner, introduced Charles before helping present the award. Gore praised the prince for his efforts to raise awareness...
...first draft, but only in one scene, just a tiny thing from her childhood. And then I realized, if he addressed the whole thing to her, made her the central, the only remaining human being he still loved, then it gives it all kinds of improved focus. I kept on saying, why is he telling us this? It also lodges it in the present day, and contrasts what he went through with what an average Westerner in a market-state democracy is going through...
...wrapped in patched quilts lying on dirty canvas stretchers on the cement floor. When I was finally sent to see a doctor, she said I had high fever and probably had pneumonia. For the next few days, I drifted in and out of consciousness. When my mind came into focus again, I found my arm bound to the side of the bed. I was being fed intravenously. A woman in the ward came over to chat. She said, ''You were unconscious for six days. They thought you were going to die.'' She was as thin as a reed, with hollow...