Word: refocuses
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...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...
...There will be a hundred little problems," Zakaria said. "We need to refocus, be flexible. People won't just be good and bad but will lie in between...
Clinton and his aides made a number of other critical June moves that pulled the campaign out of its doldrums. The candidate issued a new economic program, titled "Putting People First," late in the month. It served to refocus public attention on Clinton as the candidate offering specific ideas, at the very time Perot was coming under increasing fire for talking only vague generalities. "Perot's biggest mistake was not releasing a plan of his own," says a Clinton insider. "If he had, it's possible we might have ended up being the third candidate in the race." (Perot...