Word: focused
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...While the focus of repairing business institutions is mostly on the financial and auto sectors, no one has come up with a key to the lock of consumer spending contraction. The idea that building out infrastructure will do that is probably flawed. The process may create jobs, but that will take a long time. And, those with new employment are more likely to save this wages than spend them. At least that is what recent data show...
...economic climate; some in the Administration have suggested that it's preferable to just let the cuts lapse when they expire next year. And the House Speaker has refused to rule out investigating former Bush Administration officials, even after Obama said he would prefer to keep the party's focus forward-looking...
...swinging in the other direction. In 2007 New Jersey became the first state in 40 years to abolish its death penalty. In that same year repeal bills were narrowly defeated in Montana, Nebraska and New Mexico, all of which are revisiting the issue this year. Now the focus is on Maryland. After years of failed attempts by death penalty opponents to bring a repeal bill to a vote in the state legislature, Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley is personally sponsoring this year's version, promising that he will fight to have the legislature pass it during the current...
...government spending were a preposterous strategy for jump-starting the economy. They're concerned with how the money would be spent. They're O.K. with a short-term injection of cash, but they don't think this is the time for long-term government investments. They want to focus on fighting the recession, and they don't see Pell grants, renewable energy subsidies, health-care technology and Head Start - much less a beautification of the Mall, contraception for low-income women or additional funding for the arts - as the best way to do that. "Many of them are worthy [programs...
...White House aides say the important thing is not to focus on the holes in the lobbying rules but on their positive effect. The new Obama policy, according to several outside groups, remains the most expansive ban on the revolving door between lobbyists and public service in Executive Branch history. The exceptions aside, White House spokesman Gibbs says he is convinced that the American people will not lose sight of the forest for a few trees...