My speech, if I remember, focused on the traditional construction trades, i.e., electricians, plumbers, carpenters, and the racial barriers to those unionized trades which are a fact of life in New York and many other American cities.
The emphasis I remember best focused on energy and the environment through the core concepts of The High Cost of High Tech, The Politics of Solar Energy, Burn It, Bury It or Use It (about solid waste management), Information is the Best Defense (about toxic chemicals in the home) and California Water Politics.
(Rove said that voters have become so media-aware that television advertising is losing effectiveness: "I can remember focus groups in 2000 where you thought you had a room full of directors. People were talking about the production values of the spot").
"The thing I remember is how focused he was, even so young.
In Chomsky's political writings of that period, I remember a focus on the sanitized language that accompanied U.S. war crimes in the Vietnam conflict ("a euphemism for U.S. aggression") -- such as strategic hamlets ("concentration camps") to protect the Vietnamese from guerrillas ("whom they were largely supporting").
"I Remember Nothing" is also focused on what we remember.
"I remember a ludicrous focus group in Staines," says Carter.
"I remember feeling a focus I never experienced before — intense, so riveting that I directed my performance to that space," he said.
"I remember in early focus groups, when I started meeting some of our customers, there was a housewife who had sort of accidentally begun to sell things on eBay.
Astonishingly, Davis continued the run of performances, returning to the Royal Opera House pit just days after, giving a performance that I remember for its focus, its drive and its life-enhancing joy.
During the 2008 election, I remember listening incredulously to focus groups as swing voters would repeatedly say about a man they had watched for two years, "I don't know who he is".
