Word: focusing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...does not pull her punches.” The Edwards family already has some ties to Harvard: Their older daughter, Cate, is a second-year student at Harvard Law School. The other fellows’ arrival marks continued efforts by the IOP to expand its international focus. The first woman to serve as president of Latvia, Vike-Freiberga helped her country gain membership to North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the European Union during her two terms from 1999 to 2007. “She is generally an emblem of gender equality,” said Woodbridge Society liaison Alexandre...
...primary focus of Lee’s work is to uncover the origin of the fortune cookie—which, as it turns out, is not Chinese. But the book takes its time to deliver the answer, taking many rich detours that serve to enlighten the reader not only about the Chinese cuisine but the culture as a whole. Though such an overwhelming amount of material without a definite structure can at times be confusing, cracking open “Fortune Cookie” still proves as satisfying as the dessert itself...
...We’re really proud of it and really happy with it and we like it a lot,” Drummey says. “So the focus of a lot of people we’re dealing with now is how to sell...
...certainly a continuing and growing concern of graduate deans,” said William B. Russel, dean of the graduate school at Princeton. “There are projects that are gathering more data on the present situation.” Russel said that graduate schools should focus on mentoring students and providing realistic expectations for applicants. “Many of us are beginning to put data on the Web that at least show admissions, data completion and attrition data, and placement data,” he said. Russel cited Yale and Duke as graduate schools which have been...
...humorous, shocking, and awe-inspiring stories about the lives of those who carried the newborn hip-hop baby through its development years and into the modern age.But the book’s strength in covering some of the largest hip-hop stars also proves a drawback. By choosing to focus upon such hip-hop icons as Notorious B.I.G., 2Pac, and Jay-Z, Reeves is playing to the audience with the stories of the most familiar names in the musical genre. And if we have made these men into hip-hop moguls that are worth upwards of hundreds of millions...