Word: focused
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Bloch also said that the NSF, which is a major source of federal funding for university research, has been shifting its focus the last few years from strictly supporting research to funding programs that encourage high school and undergraduate science education...
...Binswanger said societies should focus their energy on "those people who can and do achieve," though he favors institutionalization of the homeless in certain cases...
...petition, endorsed by the Harvard-Radcliffe Progessive Alliance for Life, claimed to focus on goals jointly held by pro-choice as well as anti-abortion forces. The document advocated several "positive measures" to reduce the number of unintended pregnancies and "the anguish suffered by many women in the event of an unplanned pregnancy...
With recent cuts in state aid, many city politicos say the council's focus on rent control could change as taxes and fiscal woes take center stage. And that new emphasis could lead to a reevaluation of the PR system itself...
...society to gauge an acceptable risk. Almost a decade of dwindling public confidence in the Environmental Protection Agency, which was treated like an unwanted appendage by the Reagan Administration, has led to a proportionate rise in the attention given to claims made by private consumer and environmental organizations that focus on food safety and risks to health. Dan Howell, the director of the Americans for Safe Food project at the Center for Science in the Public Interest, says that groups like his are flourishing. "Our membership is double what it was a few years ago," says Howell. "New local organizations...