Word: focus
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...never gets too up or too down,” Harvard coach Jason Saretsky said. “That’s one of her greatest strengths. She’s just so competitive, and she’s able to keep things in perspective and just focus on the moment as opposed to getting caught up in the bigger picture and allowing something beyond her control to take her off her game...
...span a diverse set of issues. According to a press release for the foundation, Beth Macy, the families beat reporter at "The Roanoke Times," will study the financial, social, and political impact of the aging baby boomer population; former NBC correspondent and current freelance multimedia journalist Kevin Sites will focus on developing a model for sustainable, independent Web-centric journalism; and Russian op-ed editor Maxim Trudolyubov will study the interaction of opinion journalism with contemporary media and society. In response to the journalism industry’s diminishing reliance on print media and its transition to more technologically advanced...
...Kedge Martin, the CEO of Sentebale, says the recession presents challenges for all charities, and denies that Sentebale has been hit especially hard. "We're a strong and robust organization," she says. "The focus for that bank year had been to expand our work on the ground and to reach out to even more children and families. There wasn't a focus on fund raising...
...impossible set of liabilities," a task-force member explained. "Our job was to clear up their balance sheets, restructure their debt, cut their costs and put the new management in a position to execute a turnaround. And we hope that a part of that will be an increased focus on designing and building products that people want...
...barring a big surprise, most people expect Sotomayor to be on the court when it opens its next term in October. The Democrats already have 59 votes in the Senate. And Sotomayor isn't a barn-burning leftist. She tends to write narrowly crafted rulings that focus on close application of the law. She resists rhetorical flourishes and sweeping philosophical statements. Altogether, she's a liberal jurist who will be replacing another mostly liberal vote on the court, David Souter, which means her arrival there won't do much to change the ideological balance. (See pictures of Sotomayor's career...