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  • NEWSWEEK has learned that U.S. commanders deliberately avoided targeting the compound as part of its bombing campaign, so that it would remain intact as the focalpoint for the first ground attack.

    The War Of The Night 2007

  • I thought I had everything figured out until the latest episode with Hurley as the focalpoint, and after that, I've got no idea.

    I’m Lost « the j. botter weblog 2006

  • The funeral of four of ANC members will be held in Ndaleni, a focalpoint of much of the recent violence, on Saturday afternoon.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • Five hundred miles beyond this focalpoint, its convict settlement long abandoned, was Easter Island, Rapa Nui, home of the great monoliths whose origin had ever been a puzzle.

    Greener Than You Think Ward Moore 1940

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