Word: focusing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Nine months ago, the nation was outraged over the awarding of bonuses to some of the executives whose firms’ irresponsible actions helped precipitate the financial crisis. Now, America’s focus on financial regulation seems to have shifted to the other issues...
...cuts, what’s past will likely be prologue. There are real and persistent problems in the current system, and if the current administration is genuinely interested in securing America against economic declines of this magnitude in the future, it must engage the problem with long-term regulatory focus in mind...
...victim told the Boston Herald that they believed the poisoning was not an accident. Duyao said that such a theory cannot be ruled out, and that the main focus of the police investigation was to determine whether there was a motive behind the incident...
...attempt to question the nature of power and whether an authoritative ruler needs to be aggressively masculine. In reality, however, the production only half succeeds in its goal; though it successfully reinvents the character of Richard, it leaves the rest of the cast lagging behind. The directorial decision to focus on Richard reduces the play from a deep meditation on power to a simple, albeit fascinating, character study...
...When you finish the race, you don’t necessarily know who has won, and you have to focus on having a great race for yourself...