Word: refocused
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Greek, the word [theorist] means seer," says Matlock, who is the department's only scholar of 19th century French literature. "I mean seer not so much as a mystic but as a speculator, someone who redraws and remakes the world to find frames that help us refocus...
...past weeks' incidents have sadly and deplorably overlooked our responsibilities to one another. It is most unfortunate that such a display of insensitivity can occur within our university. I hope that we can soon refocus our attention on the important questions and issues brought up by these incidents in a manner that is more conducive to learning and growth...
Active-optics mirrors can refocus in seconds, but the atmosphere's turbulence can make a star seem to flicker hundreds of times a second. Compensating for the flicker calls for a still experimental system called adaptive optics. Different versions of the equipment are being developed at the University of Hawaii and Johns Hopkins University, as well as in Europe...
...possible through organized popular pressure to make the environment and nature a major political issue, it should be possible to do the same for education. If it is possible to make smoking despised, it should be possible for drug use. And it should be possible to refocus some civic crusades. The antitax movement was an important political force, but it was too blunt and undifferentiated. To reduce the excesses of government bureaucracy, it is not enough to curb its spending powers. It is far more important (and more difficult) to monitor performance and press for efficiency...
Step one for the tobacco industry has been to refocus its marketing strategy. Starting with the premise that only a total ignoramus would start smoking, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company has targeted a minimally educated demographic subgroup: 18 to 24-year-old, white, blue-collar women, a.k.a. "virile women," one of the few groups within which smoking is increasing. (In reality, "18 to 24-year-old" is a euphemism for "teenage," the age group that includes fully nine out of 10 new smokers...