Word: refocusing
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...percent of the UC budget, at the beginning of every semester. That legislation requires HoCos to choose officers through democratic elections and prohibits them from charging dues if they want UC funding. Riley said that after closing the debate about restructuring, the council can now refocus its efforts on informing students about issues that more directly affect them. At the end of last night’s meeting, CLC Chair Sopen B. Shah ’08 thanked her committee members for a semester of hard work, even while the committee’s future was uncertain and its budget...
...testing. This is a welcome turn of events that we hope will lead to an official abandonment of the proposal and a move to more constructive approaches to higher education reform. Rather than wasting human and financial resources on the creation of more bureaucracy, the government should redirect and refocus its efforts on actually improving higher education. This can be done by further developing its financial assistance programs to enhance the accessibility of higher education to students across the nation. In the meantime, businesses , which were some of the prime drivers of a move for standardized tests, should find better...
...athletes like speedskater Joji Kato and snowboarder Kazuhiro Kokubo had fizzled early, forcing the Japanese Olympic Committee (JOC) to field dozens of calls each day from irate Japanese decrying the nation's disgraceful performance. "We tell the callers that we will reflect on the results and that we must refocus on our improvement plans for the [2010] Vancouver Olympics," explained Yuko Iwakami of the JOC's general-affairs department...
Although Senate minority leader Harry Reid and other moderate Democrats would like to refocus on the more politically profitable work of bashing President Bush and the Republicans on Iraq and corruption, liberals including Ted Kennedy hope to delay the Judiciary Committee vote on Alito. That would give advocacy groups time to target Alito via TV ads, petitions and phone banks. "They want some additional time to beat the drums in opposition," says an aide...
...moment so unfavorable to a plainly pro-abortion message, it is critical that pro-choice groups at Harvard and across the country refocus the reproductive rights debate on EC, using the broadly appealing and morally sound language of Clinton to build a bigger tent, with room for millions more Americans than the one under which such groups are currently huddled...