Word: focuses
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AALARM has adopted a very narrow range of interests. Our goals are to inform students about traditional values and to encourage the manifestation of these values on campus. We want to say that homosexuality, drugs and abortion are wrong. However, these important issues are not our entire focus. We are about positive alternatives to nihilism and pessimism. We encourage students to reach for ideals of faith and community, i.e. traditional values. We're not about telling people what to believe, but to believe. Never be afraid to believe...
...colleagues became investigators, exposing links between logging companies and politicians. Later, when the Penans found the courts stacked in favor of timber interests, they took the desperate step of blockading logging roads. Ngau and Friends of the Earth provided legal help and made the Penans' plight the focus of international protests. "It is our time to look after our place so that it will have a future," says Ngau, who spent 60 days in prison for his efforts to help the natives...
...activists capitalized on an outpouring of environmental sentiment during the first Earth Day to unseat seven of a targeted "dirty dozen" politicians and spur the passage of clean-air-and-water legislation. Today Eastern Europe, perhaps the grimiest industrial region on earth, could use Earth Day to focus newly aroused democratic forces on their poisoned air and land. So could much of the Third World, where billions of people grievously stretch the capacity of forests and other resources...
...attend one of CSA's discussions in the hope of learning about Church teaching on certain topics--let's say, abortion and homosexuality? The Church's teaching is very clear on these issues, and a discussion by members of CSA would be most productive if it were to focus on the history of the Church's teaching and the reasoning behind its teaching...
...tend to focus too much on tension, on feeling compelled to coexist than deepening the relationship," says Miller. "That's true about both groups...