Word: focuses
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...emphasized the physical aspects of city planning through most of the 1960s. When broader social and economic problems began to limit architectural options at the turn of the decade, its focus shifted to training and research in public policy. While the K-School initiated a separate Public Policy program, the GSD recruited an increasing number of CRP students for their interest in administration, not design. By the mid '70s bureaucratic theory had eclipsed architecture within CRP. Gerald M. McCue, dean-designate of the GSD, remembers that "our CRP program had become 80 per cent public policy analysis...
Last week a group of concerned Americans clustered around a television set in Chicago for an updating on their own state primary. Their focus was not on a local luminary but on Walter Cronkite, who had come to the provinces and set up his majestic broadcast booth. His noble gray head appeared at the bottom of the screen, a gigantic red, white and blue map of the U.S. spread out behind him. Not since George C. Scott opened the movie Patton had such a dramatic entrance been filmed. There were quiet gasps among the appreciative Chicagoans...
Just as Carter was making credit control a key focus of his retooled anti-inflation program, a joint congressional conference committee was agreeing, after years of debate, to broad-ranging legislation that would dramatically alter the structure of American banking. This will intensify the survival-of-the-fittest struggle going on among savings institutions, as they labor with soaring interest rates and try to attract new depositors...
...national polls and then block Reagan in the South. His personality was not suited to the amiable living room campaign that Bush waged in Iowa. And he was never fully able to trust his campaign aides. His television ads were hatched by committees and lacked quality and focus. His scheduling came apart because he would not give up control. And when things got tough, he distrusted his aides even more. Says Mahe: "We were all newcomers in his life, and when it got tense, he turned to the people he knew best from Texas." But most important, Reagan was simply...
...treat to see a movie with such a realistic and honest portrayal of a woman. Then again, it it rare for a movie to be produced, directed and written by women, as this one is. But to label it as a "woman's movie" is to deny its greater focus. My Brilliant Career is about a person who struggles for individuality in a constrained society. The question, though, is whether individuality and love are mutually exclusive, as Sybylla all too abruptly decides they must...