Word: refocused
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Goldsmith maintains that B.A.T shareholders would be better off if the company were to refocus on the high-profit tobacco business, which is experiencing new growth in Asia and other overseas markets. A veteran conglomerate-buster who served as the model for the swashbuckling Sir Larry Wildman in the 1987 film Wall Street, the 6-ft. 4-in. Goldsmith may have made his point all too well. Now that he has put B.A.T on the block, other raiders may try to top his offer. Or B.A.T may attempt to boost its stock price beyond his reach by launching a restructuring...
...more galvanizing reason is economic performance in an age when a skilled labor force is increasingly important. Tsongas would like to refocus the debate over education funding towards the issue of international economic competition...
...just talking: last week he introduced a bill in Congress containing steps aimed at halting the deterioration of the environment. For one thing, the proposed law would replace the White House's Council on Environmental Quality with a new body. Called the Council on World Environmental Policy, it would refocus attention on ecological problems of the planet as a whole. The bill also calls for tougher U.S. fuel-economy standards for autos and a phased-in ban on chlorofluorocarbons, the chemicals that exacerbate the greenhouse effect and destroy the stratosphere's protective ozone layer...
...largest probe ever of a U.S. securities firm. Declaring that the long-awaited agreement "makes sense from a business and human point of view," Joseph, 51, tried to be upbeat. The deal, he said, would leave the firm "in a very strong financial position, and allows us to refocus our energies on running the business successfully...
...debates only worsened the problem, and increasing their number in the future is unlikely to refocus campaigns on the issues. Debates, like ads, overemphasize the personalities of the candidates. They seem to satisfy some primitive urge to see rivals go after each other man-to-man, and have all the farce and hoopla of a professional wrestling match...