Word: focus
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...know our roles and all want to represent the team well in our regattas,” freshman skipper Ryan Byrne said. “We focus on whatever event we are competing in and try to perform as well as possible...
Especially in the current economic climate, the district’s budget has also emerged as a primary area of focus for the prospective school committee members...
Powell added that Sizer wanted to focus education around the culture that children grew up in instead of just directing all attention to what happened in school. He recalled a day when Sesame Street characters Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie put on a show in the Science Center after research by a colleague on early childhood education that Sizer had promoted...
...would be a gratuitous slight. What is questionable is whether they will vote with him when the time comes to cut off a filibuster, a procedural move that is known as invoking cloture. At this point, it appears that Reid could be three votes short, with most of the focus centering on Senators Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas, Mary Landrieu of Louisiana and Ben Nelson of Nebraska. All three come from states that John McCain carried handily against Barack Obama in 2008, and Lincoln faces what could be an uphill battle for re-election next year...
...Stuart Henderson, the former detective chief superintendent who led the original Lockerbie investigation, tells TIME that the new review will likely focus on eight suspects in the bombing who were never interviewed during the original inquiry. Henderson intimated that the men were all Libyans and that police had been prevented from questioning them in their initial investigation by Libya's leader, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. "We identified other people who we wished to interview at the time, but we never got the chance because of you know who," he says. (See pictures of the rise of Gaddafi...