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The Justice Department appeared to zero in on small sections of the extensive “UC 2030 Capacity Plan” that chart out desires to increase diversity among graduate students and faculty, including adding 1,100 tenure-track faculty.

Then she heard the shouts of her partner Robbie, desperately searching for her and their baby, and she called back to him so he could zero in on her voice.

By stripping away genre conventions, “April” eschews traditional storytelling to zero in on far more existential matters — namely, the oppressive gloom descending on Nina.

By pushing aside the distractions to zero in on what matters – like the frays on an aristocrat’s sleeve, or the faintest scent lingering on crime scene objects – he weaves a story that explains at least part of a crime and the reasons people commit them.

The California cases and the vast majority of those nationally zero in on partnerships the department said campuses have with the PhD Project, a New Jersey-based nonprofit that promotes “workplace diversity by increasing the diversity of business school faculty who encourage, mentor and enhance the preparation of tomorrow’s leaders,” according to its website.