Word: focus
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...Detroit's strategy of focusing on its profitable lines working? Neither GM nor Chrysler is profitable yet. Going forward, however, both companies' recovery plans call for concentrating on vehicles that promise an adequate return. They will continue to focus on their profitable lines, such as Chrysler's minivans and GM's pickup trucks. But both GM and Chrysler will be adding new, small cars to their lines by 2011, as they say they will make a profit on those vehicles with rising gasoline prices...
...Lisa Leslie waited a year. They're still at the top of their game. I don't think it's going to be easy, by any means, but I think it's possible to come back better than I was. I understand my body a lot more. I focus a lot more on stretching and taking care of myself...
...projected digitally instead of on film, the picture gains in gradations of night shades but loses in visual clarity. Some shots look like iPhone photos enlarged to 50 feet; any sharp camera movement results in a blur. The same has to be said for the movie. It lacks overall focus, and at the end you may have a question for Michael Mann: Why'd you bother...
Japanese and Korean researchers were the first to notice the El Niño Modoki phenomenon, before its possible effect on hurricanes really snapped into focus in 2004. That was an El Niño year, which led experts to predict a lighter than average Atlantic hurricane season. But it instead to turned out to be an El Niño Modoki, and overall hurricane activity was 2½ times as severe as normal, with 15 named storms and six major hurricanes. Florida was repeatedly battered. "We had a lot more storms than we expected, and that got us thinking...
...faces that challenged the layoffs in 2004 have reappeared today as well. Geoff P. Carens, an HCL librarian vocally opposed to any kind of layoffs, organized rallies for the Campaign then as now, while Jaeger and other HUCTW leaders said in both instances that their focus is on negotiating with the University to find creative layoff alternatives...