Word: focusing
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...Coke has focused on supplementing its signature soda brands with water (Vitamin Water), juice (Odwalla) and other noncarbonated drinks, answering critics who lambasted the company for being a lightweight in the nonsoda segment of the beverage business. To keep up its momentum, Coke recently bought a 40% stake in Honest Tea, an organic-bottled-tea upstart. Pepsi, which owns Gatorade and Tropicana, was already well positioned, so it steadily ramped up its focus on snack foods. Its Frito-Lay division now accounts for 56% of Pepsi's annual retail sales. Over the past decade, that product diversity has helped Pepsi...
Paulson didn't seem to think that that was something he needed to get involved with. Same with fiscal stimulus legislation. Paulson shepherded the last stimulus bill through Congress in January. Not this one. "My focus is on the financial sector, on getting credit going, getting lending flowing," he said. "I can't imagine anything that would have a bigger stimulative impact." In other words, he really doesn't want to take on anything more at this point. Can you blame...
With Caputo ranked 4th in the nation and O’Connor at 5th, the co-captains will undoubtedly make their marks on the mat throughout the winter. But, as he has insisted from the outset of preseason O’Connor stresses team focus before individual goals...
...Science” track, intended for humanities-oriented students who do not want to take science courses beyond the core requirements, or “Science and Society,” the track that will maintain much of the old concentration’s expectations for students to focus in specific area of science...
Advocates like Trantalis say gay activists should focus less on marriage and more on simply building coalitions with politicians and others who can be allies in the political process. "We have to really blend in and show others that the LGBT people are no different than real, ordinary, commonplace people," he said. "We go to the same jobs, the same schools, and have the same...