Word: focusing
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...focus was to shut them down,” Finelli said, referring to Schram and Smith. “But I think we lost sight of that in the second half, especially when things got a little tighter in terms of scoring. Those breakdowns really hurt...
...following Saturday.“We just need to stay at it, keep training hard and keep mentally tough,” Diekema said. “We need to be able to keep our momentum up and just be ready to race.”With the focus already on the HYP meet, which will likely decide the Ivy League title, the Crimson swimmers are gearing up to face their biggest rival, annual powerhouse Princeton. In addition to physical training, Harvard will also need to prepare both mentally and emotionally for the decisive contest.“We need...
According to legal experts, the crux of the legal arguments may focus on parts of the taped conversations that aren't getting much attention now, dialogue that helps define the nature of all the pay-to-play politics talk. Defense lawyers will argue that politics is politics and that you can't hold someone criminally accountable for playing by the rules of the political game. Genson tried - unsuccessfully - to make the same point at the trial of Lawrence Warner, a co-defendant of Illinois' disgraced and incarcerated ex-governor George Ryan...
...violence ends soon enough and the papal trip can be salvaged, Benedict's arrival in the region would inevitably be much more political than he might have initially hoped. "He wanted to make a voyage of faith. But the context has changed," says the Vatican source. "Now the focus would be on peace. It could give him the chance to leave a legacy there." First, though, he must pray for the chance to even make such a complicated pilgrimage, as the Middle East's collision of faith and politics grows bloodier...
...Today, the Europeans will hopefully focus on what they can do together to increase their energy security," says Katinka Barysch, deputy director of the London-based Centre for European Reform (CER) think tank. "They also need to reinforce their efforts to achieve their 20% energy savings target and explore alternative sources of power, namely renewables and nuclear. If the gas standoff reminds the Europeans of the importance of such measures, Russia and Ukraine will have done the E.U. a favor." Even if that favor was rather chilly...