Word: focused
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...supporting roles all the time, and [with those] you can come in and then disappear. But in An Education I'm there all the time, and of course you're so self-involved that it's all you can do the first time you watch it, is to focus on yourself and become convinced that you're the most boring person in the universe...
...USDA) and Food and Drug Administration (FDA). But those numbers are almost surely based on serious undercounting. Most cases of foodborne illness are never officially reported - for every one case of E. coli that goes into the books, another 20 are undocumented. What's more, the FDA and USDA focus on just a handful of reportable pathogens: E. coli, campylobacter, salmonella and listeria, which excludes the many cases of food poisoning for which doctors do not identify a cause. (See the top 10 food trends...
Indeed, what ineffective Harry Potter anecdotes and videos show us is that colleges cannot rely on specific mediums or gimmicks to do the personalizing for them; they must also focus on university-specific content. Harvard’s Admissions Office does in fact have a Harvard Video, but unlike Yale’s 16-minute long musical extravaganza, it is not nearly as well known. Despite its popularity, I don’t actually know any high school students who became more interested in Yale after viewing it; sure, those who wanted to go to Yale prior to the video...
...We’re watching tapes from last year’s game and focusing on what we can do better as a team,” Cohen said. “We really like to focus on each game individually rather than what team we’re playing...
...Olympic Games. There are an estimated 20,000 Tibetans living in Nepal but, with China pushing Nepal to tighten its border with Tibet, the number of new refugees reaching Nepal has dropped to about 500 from an annual figure of around 2,500. But it too has increased its focus on economic ties - trade between China and Nepal has quadrupled since 2003. This week, China said it would restart the tourist bus route between the Tibetan capital Lhasa and Nepal's capital Kathmandu. It had suspended the service...