Word: focused
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...like watching guys like Terrell Owens and Chad Ochocinco? Do you find them entertaining? I'm about the Jerry Rices. Catch the ball, make a touchdown, drop the ball in the end zone, head back to the huddle and focus on doing your job again. I guess what we do is entertaining. But I don't have the mind that thinks, 'wow, I need to do this celebration.' It's just not what...
...might think organizations that focus on improving health and eradicating disease would be thrilled that employers are coming up with more incentives to lose weight and stop smoking. But in October the American Heart Association, the American Cancer Society and 61 other organizations sent a letter to Congress calling the Ensign-Carper amendment discriminatory and warning that it could make health insurance too expensive for the people who need it most. Says George Huntley of the American Diabetes Association: "This is not a wellness program. It's a penalty for failing to achieve a specific health status...
...advance of Thanksgiving. Many forums and websites chart the deals, helping shoppers make a plan of attack for the big day. And attack they will - the National Retail Federation anticipates 134 million people will hit the stores on Thanksgiving weekend. After the deaths last year, there's an added focus on making sure stores are ready to handle the crowds. Walmart extended hours to keep stores open on Thanksgiving Day to try and handle the crush and had safety experts develop plans for all their stores, a tactic followed by many retailers...
...finding and bringing justice. Critics have questioned the value of delving so deeply into a violent era, after South Korea has already moved on to become one of the world's wealthiest democracies. Still, the long-hidden information about tactics used in a brutal war has been coming into focus, and many believe it's helping a society heal from scantily bandaged wounds. "Once the brutal facts of these massacres are out in the public, it's very hard for any government ... to get this information covered up again," says Bruce Cumings, a professor of Korean history at the University...
...take education. The reality is that our concentration has been on higher education rather than on basic education. There has been no focus on the more basic area. And we did not talk to the managers, to the school principals - it was just left to the bureaucracy. That's why we had a meeting of school principals from across the country in Durban. And education is one of the most important things. If we do not pay attention to education, we will never move forward...