Word: focuses
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...laboratory--which will be located in the soon-to-be-built Charles A. Dana Research Institute at the Harvard-affiliated Beth Israel Hospital--will focus on the biological causes of and treatment for the common perceptual handicap, which afflicts nearly 25 million Americans...
...group, which will focus on student participation in policy making, will serve as a clearinghouse, providing other student groups with the information necessary to make effective changes, Richard N. Chassin '81, coordinator of the Committee to Review Comparative Admissions, Tuition, and Financial Aid Policies, said yesterday...
...anti-nuke rallies than I have in the Harvard classrooms. But the problem with the anti-nuke movement is they are just looking at a small segment of the problem. They are fighting one symptom of the problem, nuclear plants and arms. These urban activists, they can afford to focus in on one single issue," she continues. "But when you are out on the Indian reservations and you are sitting on top of all that coal and uranium, you don't care whether they are mining it for nuclear plants fuels, nuclear weapons, or anything else. All you care about...
...deliberately chooses to vary the course, to avoid this shoal or take advantage of that prevailing political wind. Then policy-making ceases to be an exercise in the abstract, or a matter of rootless, drifting pragmatism. Intellectual discipline returns to it, and arguments once more have a focus and coherence that give edge to the process of public debate...
...Wexler levels most of the blame for over emphasizing the negative aspects of the Carter presidency on the American people, who, she says, focus chiefly on their own problems. She feels that the press too, is responsible for the "bum rap" the Carter campaign administration has taken for running a negative and mud-slinging campaign. Wexler explains that the press never focuses on the positive aspects of Carter's campaign speeches...