Word: refocuses
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...still can't take our eyes off the slow-motion car wreck that is Martha Stewart. Today's tidbit, from the New York Times, is that Martha Stewart Omnimedia, parent company of Martha, is looking for a new CEO, one that can, as the New York Times notes, "refocus attention on the company - and away from Ms. Stewart's legal troubles." Hmmm. Still, as her millions of fans will attest, Martha isn't solely the sum of her allegations. For an excellent assessment of why our favorite domesticatrix has such a fundamental appeal, see Caitlin Flanagan's fine piece...
Mackinnon says the organization will also refocus on its relationships with individual workers at Harvard, where the organization first began...
Both Parsons and Pittman have insisted that AOL's troubles are not as dramatic as the headlines suggest. Growth may have slowed, but it hasn't vanished. Pittman has told AOL division staff members to refocus on the service's core mission, "figuring out what's important to people and how to make it more convenient for them to do that online...
...normal times, none of this would be remotely surprising. It is the way that great powers work. "American foreign policy," wrote National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice in a 2000 Foreign Affairs article that became the template for the Bush approach, "should refocus on the national interest and the pursuit of key priorities." For this Administration, missile defense and NATO expansion are key priorities; the fate of Chechens is not. But these are not normal times, and after Sept. 11, the pursuit of the national interest was, supposedly, suddenly invested with another characteristic. In a phrase that Rice herself has used...
...restore sanity to our tax system? The first step: refocus the agency’s enforcement efforts. The Senate is just starting to take the issue seriously, with Finance Committee hearings this week. Offshore accounts would be a good place to start; the same bank secrecy laws that protect tax cheats also keep al-Qaeda’s money safe. The U.S. should make financial transparency a condition of doing business with American companies...