Word: focusing
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...overall goal is to get the attention of university leadership to focus with laser-like attention on cost,” Welch said in a phone interview from Vermont yesterday. “They can’t keep expecting the taxpayers to subsidize tuitions that are constantly beyond reach...
...gravity and direction to the film when it veers too far off course. Yet these segments are nearly lost in the deluge of meaningless celebrity speeches which only reiterate Moore’s immense “bravery.” Fortunately, the film picks up steam as the focus shifts to the final weeks before the election. Moore gives his story a boost of adrenaline by focusing on a series of conservative protests against his speeches. He even manages to evoke some tension and excitement—though the election’s outcome is, of course, obvious. Nevertheless...
...book—its dry, biting wit; its playful narrative; and, most importantly, its passion for history—and enriches them. Free from that last book’s novel yet somewhat extraneous framing device, “The Wordy Shipmates” dives right into its historical focus, the life and times of the founders of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Among the vaunted cast of America’s founding patriarchs (and matriarchs), the icons of John Winthrop, Roger Williams, John Endicott, and Anne Hutchinson are increasingly obscure—and Vowell knows it. But their virtual anonymity...
...According to Tom Minnery, vice president of the conservative organization Focus on the Family, Palin "is absolutely unashamed of her faith ... She is from the heart of Evangelicalism, a Bible church. There are just millions of Evangelicals who know how to place her because of that church connection." But Palin herself has at times consciously distanced herself from her Evangelical faith. When asked by ABC's Charlie Gibson about a comment for which she has been criticized - asking her former congregation to pray that U.S. soldiers in Iraq are "on a task that is from God" - Palin argued that...
...usually dated to the Azusa Street Revival that began in Los Angeles in 1906. (The revival was a nine-year series of near continuous worship services that popularized Pentecostal worship and practices.) Pentecostalism can be best understood as a branch within evangelical Protestantism, characterized by a focus on the Holy Spirit and a belief in spiritual gifts, such as healing and speaking in tongues...