Word: focuses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Today the University is more science-oriented," he says. "Research makes Harvard less of the focus, to its loss. It is more difficult to have relationships with professors...
...with everything that it loses its meaning," says Robert Csandl, who runs sex- offender and substance-abuse treatment programs in Allentown, Pa. "Even if you're using the word addiction metaphorically, it blurs good assessment, which is essential to starting appropriate treatment." Johns Hopkins researcher John Money sees the focus on sex addiction as a fad. "People trying to make money on it better hurry up," he says. "It'll probably dry up in five years...
...abilities as a financial leader have also made him the subject of frequent student scrutiny. His reluctance to subordinate the University's financial well-being to moral debates--specifically his opposition to selling Harvard's South African-related investments--have made Bok the focus of intense protests from students and some alumni...
Even before the fading of the cold war, the focus of national security was beginning to blur. In the past few years, advocates of softer-sounding causes have been intoning the sacred syllables as piously as the Pentagon. It is firmly implanted in conventional wisdom that our economic competitiveness is a matter of national security. Fighting drug traffic is proclaimed a matter of national security. So is repairing our witless educational system, our unhealthy health system, our crumbling infrastructure...
...between branches and local schools, the librarians just smile. There are no links. But he is determined to forge them. He quickly called on incoming city education chancellor Joseph Fernandez, bringing along several proposals, including one that would target first grade and the first year of junior high as focus years for familiarizing kids with how the branches work...