Word: refocused
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With the Clintons away on vacation in California and Congress in recess, Washington's political temperature cooled down considerably. Administration officials capitalized on the break to put the clamor of Whitewater behind them and refocus on promoting the President's domestic agenda...
...report, released only to members of the Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Department and staff of the Semitic Museum, calls for the financially-strapped museum to relocate its ethnographic and photographic collections to other museums. It says the museum should refocus on its core ancient and medieval collections and the "educational and research needs of the university and scholarly community...
...refocus" the mission, as Clinton is doing now, is not to resolve the underlying problem with our activities in Somalia. Because the problem is not in Somalia...
Clinton promised to refocus his presidency on the economy after his $16 billion stimulus package was defeated in the Senate in April. But this vow proved short-lived: his aides bombarded House leaders last week with demands that they take action next month on enterprise zones, a crime bill and a community bank-lending measure. When a Democratic lawmaker asked the President last week to "stop the policy-a-day nonsense," the room full of lawmakers burst into applause...
...drag queens have a symbiotic relationship, as do gay men and camp. Despite conservative rhetoric about boys-will-be-boys-by-being-girls, camp and homosexuality cannot be served from open another, simply because they've been blurred too often. In the name of propriety, we cannot simply refocus our gaze and separate the two into distinctly autonomous categories...