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Walsh College of Accountancy and Business

Walsh College assists the community in ongoing volunteer efforts: Gleaners, Capuchin Soup Kitchen, Blackwell Institute in Detroit, and Focus: HOPE.


1964 Brinks Hotel bombing

David Tucker of the United States Army War College said that the bombing was "insignificant for the conventional military balance but important for the political struggle that was the primary focus of the enemy Vietcong".

A Good Man Is Hard to Find

Musician Sufjan Stevens wrote a song titled "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" on his album Seven Swans; it is told from the viewpoint of the Misfit even though he is not the focus of the story.

A35 autoroute

On the German side of the frontier, plans to build a final stretch of Autobahn to connect the French A35 directly with the German A65 at Kandel were not implemented during the 1990s when the focus of Autobahn construction switched to the eastern side of the country.

Aisha Association for Woman and Child Protection

AISHA Association for Women and Child Protection (AISHA), established in 2009, is an independent Palestinian women organization working to achieve gender integration through economic empowerment and psychosocial support to marginalized groups in the Gaza Strip with focus on Gaza City and the North area.

America's Top 10

After that point, the show was hosted by Siedah Garrett and then Tommy Puett; Kasem later returned as host until he closed down the show in 1992 to focus on launching "Casey's Countdown," an adult contemporary music spinoff of Casey's Top 40.

ASME Y14.41-2003

Both standards focus on the presentation of Geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T) together with the geometry of the product.

Australasian Post

One of its best features is its focus on Australiana, with pages of jokes and cartoons, including the Ettamogah Pub series by cartoonist Ken Maynard.

Binegar

Calamine ore was mined at Merchants Hill in the late 18th century, but the area's principal focus was on limestone quarrying, at Gurney Slade quarry, and agriculture.

Blackline GPS

Blackline GPS has now shifted its focus primarily on the industrial & commercial safety and loss prevention industries and has acquired numerous globally prominent clients including Air Liquide, Praxair, Ryder, Waste Management, Inc, Cemex, and BAE Systems.

Boku wo Tsutsumu Tsuki no Hikari

It is a sequel to Hiwatari's previous work, Please Save My Earth, and features the two focus characters of that series, Alice Sakaguchi (now Kobayashi) and Rin Kobayashi.

Box Television

The playlist is predominantly mainstream Urban Pop, Dance and R&B, although since its relaunch in Summer 2006, (and the launch of a sister channel Q) it has begun to focus more on dance music once again.

Brico

These are smaller stores located in city centers (Antwerp, Brussels, Liege, Gent ...) that focus on most basic and easy-to-store items.

Business Intelligence Competency Center

As early as 2001, Gartner, an information technology research and advisory company, started advocating that companies need a BICC to develop and focus resources to be successful using business intelligence.

Ca' Foscari University of Venice

Chemical studies are now applied to industry, restoration and materials engineering, with a particular focus on nanotechnologies and biotechnologies.

Cal Nichols

He sold substantially all of Gasland's petroleum marketing business in 1996 to Husky Energy, but retained Gasland Properties Ltd., he has therefore shifted his focus to developing that company's various holdings.

Cambrex Corporation

In 2007, Cambrex divested their biologics business to Lonza to focus on small molecule APIs.

Center for BrainHealth

All contributions support the cause of brain health and the Center’s many research focus areas-Alzheimer's disease, traumatic brain injury (TBI), autism, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), stroke, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Addiction, BrainHealth Physical, Dementia, Exercise and the Brain, Healthy Brain Aging, and Virtual Brain Training.

Choc ice

On 14 July 2012 the term 'choc ice' became the focus of a racism row when footballer Rio Ferdinand seemingly endorsed a tweet by a Twitter user who had used the term pejoratively in criticising fellow footballer Ashley Cole, suggesting Cole was figuratively "black on the outside, white on the inside".

Dear Esther

It instead places focus on its story, which is told through a fragmented, epistolary narrative as the player explores an unnamed island in the Hebrides.

Denmark, Oregon

Denmark was the focus of a 2009 series of articles on Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB) about climate change that coincided with the Copenhagen Summit in the country of Denmark.

Doug Palau

The series changed its format to focus on multiple cases and replaced first season lead Daniel Benzali with Anthony LaPaglia.

Focus Features

Focus Features (formerly USA Films, Universal Focus, Good Machine, Gramercy Pictures and October Films) is the art house films division of NBCUniversal, and acts as both a producer and distributor for its own films and a distributor for foreign films.

Great Wall International Music Academy

The academy began with a focus on strings only, founded by violinist Kurt Sassmannshaus, and added a piano department in 2013.

Hamburg Records

Throughout the 2000s, the company included an artist management department, while the musically focus was on any kind of Rock, particularly on Punk.

Kfar Blum

The kibbutz was named in honor of Léon Blum, the Jewish socialist former Prime Minister of France who was the focus of a widely publicized, and ultimately unsuccessful, show trial in 1942 mounted by the collaborationist Vichy regime.

Lincluden Collegiate Church

Uchtred's focus of power was in eastern Galloway, while his brother's was in the west, their reigns were marked by turbulent relationships between themselves, the Irish Kings of Ailech, the King of Scots, William the Lyon, and the King of England, Henry II.

Linny Pacillo Parking Garage

The art in the garage, under the 1 Percent for Art Program, includes art inspired by Alaska flora and fauna on each garage level, a piece in the main elevator lobby that tells the Parking Fairies story, and a mural over the Seventh Avenue exit titled "Focus on Statehood" that features four men instrumental in Alaska's becoming a state: Bob Atwood, Bill Egan, Bob Bartlett and Ernest Gruening.

Living in Missouri

The AFF is the first festival to focus on the contribution of the screenwriter, and 2001's honorees were Lawrence Kasdan (writer/director of Grand Canyon, Mumford, The Big Chill; writer of Raiders of the Lost Ark and The Empire Strikes Back) and Gary David Goldberg Family Ties, Brooklyn Bridge).

Lubov

Lubov claims to have trained at the Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts in Russia, where her focus was on the classical application of oils.

Mallorca – Suche nach dem Paradies

The focus is put on the ruthless real estate agent Rolf Stein (Klaus Zmorek), who's business activities aren't always legal.

New York Doll

The central focus of the film, however, is Arthur's life after conversion to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints after struggles with alcoholism, drug abuse, an attempt at suicide, and a beating with a baseball bat that, contrary to popular belief, did not happen during the Rodney King riots, but left him near death, and needing a long recovery.

Nigel Fortune

While his scholarly work tended to focus on early music, he was a champion of the music of contemporary composer John Casken and for many years provided significant financial support to the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group.

Octagonal churches in Norway

In the Netherlands the reformed church in Willemstad, North Brabant, Koepelkerk (Domed Church) (1607), the first Protestant church building in the Netherlands, was given an octagonal shape according to Calvinism's focus on the sermon.

Operation Rainfall

Operation Rainfall formed from the focus on three Wii-exclusive titles: Xenoblade Chronicles developed by Monolith Soft (makers of Xenogears and the Xenosaga series), The Last Story developed by Mistwalker and AQ Interactive, and Pandora's Tower developed by Ganbarion.

Patrick McCartan

They persuaded Éamon de Valera to support the Philadelphia branch of Clan na Gael against the New York branch led by John Devoy and Judge Daniel Cohalan in their struggle to focus the resources of the Friends of Irish Freedom to Irish independence rather than domestic American politics.

Radiation

Infrared may be detected at a distance from the radiating objects by "feel." Infrared sensing snakes can detect and focus infrared by use of a pinhole lens in their heads.

RadioWest

Geire Kami (Workdays with Geire - WA Network & Wheatbelt Focus - Wheatbelt Network)- Freelance

Radoslav Večerka

Radoslav Večerka (born April 18, 1928 in Brno) is a Czech linguist, university professor, journalist, editor and literary scholar active in the field of Slavic studies with a focus on paleography, comparative studies of Slavic languages and Slavic history.

Rattlestick Playwrights Theater

In accordance with its focus on nurturing the work of individual writers, Rattlestick has developed on-going relationships with several previously produced playwrights, including Lucy Thurber, Stephen Belber, Adam Rapp, Craig Wright, Craig Lucas, and Jesse Eisenberg.

Raymond Pace Alexander

Many accounts of the black civil rights struggle in the United States focus on the large-scale events, urban rebellions and nationwide efforts that characterized the years after the Supreme Court’s 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education.

Religious humanism

In addition, many Indian religions like Hinduism, Buddhism and other Asian religions and belief systems like Confucianism, Taoism, Mohism, Shenism, and Zoroastrianism, that focus on human nature and action more than theology, were always primarily humanistic.

Riaan Cruywagen

In the mid-2000s, following the contract renewal issue, Cruywagen was once more the focus of popular culture in South Africa for a time, when a number of e-mail and internet jokes originally referring to Chuck Norris and David Hasselhoff were modified by using his name in their place.

Solo diving

Others, such as underwater photographers and videographers, dive solo as this allows them a greater opportunity to focus on capturing selected images and not having to rely on buddies to remain close at hand.

These Are the Voyages...

Connor Trinneer, who played Trip Tucker, felt that the finale should have had a memorable farewell that he described as a "M*A*S*H moment", but that the producers did not want to focus on such an element.

Tundra Yukaghir language

Case assignment for core participants behaves in a broadly split-intransitive manner, though actual assignment is very complex, involving semantic role, focus, relative animacy of the participants (first or second person versus third), and nature of the noun itself.

Utah Valley

Novell and WordPerfect were instrumental in making the Utah Valley a focus for software development.

V. Eshwaraiah

During his visit to Institute of Sindhology in Sindh of Pakistan, he called upon India and Pakistan to focus on universal peace, harmony and development of their people by curtailing defence budget on border tensions.

Villum Foundation

Beginning in 2006, it has donated a larger proportion of its grants to social and cultural projects outside Denmark, with a special focus on Hungary, Poland and other countries in Eastern and Central Europe.

Wilfred Kibet Kigen

Kigen was persuaded by Wilson Boit Kipketer (a world record holder in the steeplechase) to move to Ngong to focus on his running.


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