Word: focused
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...living quarters comprise 14 rooms, 7½ baths and east and west sitting rooms on the second floor. Graber will focus on the family sitting room, the master bedroom, Nancy's dressing room and office, and a family study. He aims to use some "staggeringly beautiful" early American furniture he found in a Government warehouse. Also, he says, "there will probably be new rugs, new wallpapers and new drapes and paint. The First...
Frequently mentioned as a possible member of Republican Administrations, Feldstein is an advocate of less Government regulation of the private sector of the economy . A major focus of his research has been on the American Social Security system. He contends that the Government's retirement program has transferred vital investment capital into current consumption and thus hindered the long-term development of the economy...
...gain some sense, courses in "kid lit" are becoming part of the curriculum at most major universities. The adult who was once the main focus of medical and psychological scrutiny now has a competitor. Today, says Historian Philip Aries, "our world is obsessed by the physical, moral and sexual problems of childhood...
Atlanta's new tower has become a laboratory for energy-saving devices. A computer automatically shuts off all lights at 6 p.m. unless instructed to leave some on. Advanced sodium-vapor light fixtures focus illumination on desks instead of dispersing the glow throughout the room. This alone should cut electricity use for lighting by half. A 300,000-gal. underground tank stores water that is chilled overnight when power costs are lower; the water is then used in the air-conditioning system during the daytime. Jobs that require work at unusual hours will be concentrated in an adjoining three...
...expected to continue living with his wife. His initial success in court may have been due to the Exeter judge's ability to observe the Masons' disharmony directly; the appeals judges, on the other hand, were confronted only with a paper record that forced them to focus almost exclusively on the sexual problem...