Word: focusing
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...this year Heinz decided to focus the awards on a single issue rather than recognize many. The winners of each $100,000 award, announced on Sept. 15, were acknowledged for their work toward one cause: protecting the environment. The idea was to highlight that in this moment - in the run-up to the all-important U.N. climate-change summit in Copenhagen at the end of the year - we're reaching a turning point for the planet. "This is absolutely the issue that defines us," says Heinz. "We wanted to make a statement that across America, there are people taking...
...blockbuster quarterly earnings, as a corporation does, and there is little reason we should financially aim as such. Harvard’s priority should be providing a reliable, quality educational and research experience during any given year. Consequently, Harvard Management Company, which oversees the investment of our endowment, should focus on steady, consistent growth, for safety rather than surprise...
...goes through, and how to deal with it healthily so that we’re actually enhancing our lives instead of taking away from them.” Meghan Pasricha ’08, a 2007 pick, also works to solve social issues. “I like to focus on empowering people and giving them resources and skills, and training them so that they’ll be able to stand on their own and train other people,” she said. Pasricha co-founded Global Youth HELP (Health, Education, and Leadership Program) with her sister, Sarina Pasricha...
...Does your remit restrict you to conflict zones, or can you focus on human-rights abuses in places like Burma and North Korea? My job deals with atrocities, genocide and war crimes. Human rights and international humanitarian law are closely related, but my focus is on the latter. I'll be working not just with new developments and existing courts but also unhealed wounds created by past atrocities, in Cambodia for instance...
...Deputy Foreign Minister declined to comment on how Islamabad would react in the event of sanctions or tougher forms of pressure on Iran. Instead, Islamabad's focus remains on an "enhanced level of engagement" that can draw Iranian support for Pakistan's "energy, trade and communications" sectors. The new relationship with Iran has already seen a 28% rise in trade, according to Deputy Minister Khan, and with chronic shortages of electricity supply, Islamabad is eagerly awaiting the construction of a decades-old proposed Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline - plans for which remain doubtful...