Word: focused
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Several attendees were particularly concerned that the Institute's mission statement does not confine its focus to women and gender, but rather calls for academic research across the disciplines...
...said she thinks the council may want to focus as much of its energies on attracting candidates as it does attracting voters...
...specific suggestions and query the teacher on her goals for the year in particular subjects. If your conference comes just after a report card, don't let the teacher burn too much time going over each grade; you can do that on your own. The conference should focus on areas of concern--yours and the teacher's. It is helpful to take notes during the meeting and keep any schoolwork the teacher passes along, in case amnesia strikes...
...firm: "We're talking about product life cycles of two to three years or even less. We're talking about industry life cycles of less than a decade." Newman notes that this hectic pace poses "a massive challenge for people with existing successful businesses," whose "natural tendency is to focus on what has made the business successful." They are vulnerable to competition from "upstarts" who "have the advantage of starting today at the state of the art" and have nothing to lose...
That's because every shopper's click provides data, Brooks says. And in the past eight months, he has used that data, along with information from focus groups, to redesign his site five times. Brooks is dubious that a brick-and-mortar retailer can adapt as quickly to consumer needs. "My sense of time is compressed," he says. "For someone who has spent 25 years as a retailer to adopt this speed will be very tough...