Word: focus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...coming months, the focus of the debate will be the fiscal 1981 defense budget, the final details of which are now being drafted in highly technical but often heated sessions behind closed doors
...Isaac case also brings the disagreement over the Department's intellectual focus to light. Isaac charged, in a letter to President Bok in 1975, that the ad hoc committee which considered his tenure was told not to appoint Africanists, although Isaac's field is Ethiopic languages and literatures and church history...
Representatives from the Clamshell Alliance, however, see the move toward pressuring companies invested in nuclear power as something more than just an effective means of promoting anti-nuke feeling. Instead they see it as a broadening of the movement from its initial focus on halting the nuclear energy through occupations--direct action--to measures involving economics...
...Jazz Makers is not so varied, informative, or readable as its alluring format. While it is impossible to capture a great creative spirit in a short essay, most of the writers involved in this project did not even limit their subjects effectively. Only George Avakian and John S. Wilson focus their works sufficiently. Avakian details the cultural process that changed Louis Armstrong from jazz's first great improviser to a grinning but unartistic national hero, then muses briefly on the corrupting influence that so often accompanies success in the arts. And Wilson has produced, in only nine pages...
...first two items?an increase in the discount rate and the setting up of reserve requirements for offshore bank borrowings?went through smoothly enough, but the third presented a procedural problem. As a revolutionary change in Fed operations, the plan to focus day-to-day attention on actual money creation required not only board approval (which was given unanimously) but the support of the Open Market Committee, which comprises not only the board's governors but also five other representatives from the Fed's twelve regional banks. Just after lunch a conference call was arranged, unanimous support from the governors...