Word: refocusing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...advised the Radcliffe students attending the RUS dinner to refocus the context in which one responds to this pernicious comment. I believe that women have and continue to face discrimination in this country. If young women entering the professions are being taken seriously, they do so as a consequence of the affirmative actions by women who put themselves on the line demanding equal opportunity and the end to sex discrimination. Without these continued efforts to combat nonconscious forms of institutional sexism, many qualified women would not hold their present positions. Political actions by both men and women are encouraging professional...
After the Pope departed, according to the draft, Poland's illustrated magazines could "publish several pictures (two to four)," and other publications should step up their coverage of international affairs, "especially with regard to events connected with the upcoming signing of the SALT II treaty," to refocus the citizenry's attention on secular matters...
Some regard Brady as only an interim editor, sent in to keep New York functioning until Murdoch finds the editor he wants. But Brady is busily making plans to refocus the magazine on local coverage. Says he: "This is to an important degree a service magazine, not a magazine of national affairs. It's a guide on how to live better in New York...
Ford's new presence has been built on many things-his big smile, his astonishing honesty and openness, the realization by many that his pardon of Nixon may have been more right than wrong (because it helped refocus the nation's attention on other problems), his program on the economy, which has forced the hostile Congress to move, his energy program, and his quick and successful response to the Mayaguez hijacking. Whether he has been right or wrong in his decisions...
...there are people like Corcoran who believe we must refocus our concern and energy on domestic affairs. In that context, the remark able Henry Kissinger becomes, oddly enough, a kind of problem. There was just a hint at Vladivostok that he was seducing Gerald Ford to walk the same primrose path of summitry that Nixon trod. ∎ That land of life is delightful with the urbane Kissinger as tour director. He brings those big fat briefing books that lay the whole plan out. It is all very coherent and tidy, a given schedule with largely predictable results that rest...