VW said it was focussed on all of its customers.
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"Unpacking," Sara said, her eyes glassy, focussed on the television.
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Recently, the city has focussed on a more grassroots approach.
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Panou, an iPad in hand, was focussed on the shoot.
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I focussed on, what can I do in the next hour?
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He began to introduce me, but Scalia remained focussed on him.
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You were focussed on the former, and so overlooked the latter.
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It felt like we were all focussed on this one man.
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Tech reformists like McNamee are generally focussed on the biggest actors.
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Trump answered Mueller's campaign-related questions focussed on Russia in November.
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So they weren't focussed on me, and I established a connection.
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"I think we should be more focussed on that," he said.
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Law enforcement is focussed on dealing with the Modis and the Choksis.
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Traditionally, it focussed on fuel to power tankers and refined oil products.
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The economic committee focussed on EBA because it falls under its competence.
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"Beijing has traditionally focussed on art that is state-sanctioned," he said.
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His opponent made border control a central issue; Barnes focussed on education spending.
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Her PhD project focussed on diagnosing diseases from medical images such as MRI.
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And the best looks come from people who aren't focussed on the scene.
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For now, she is focussed on addressing the irregularities that her campaign identified.
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This year's DanceAfrica festival, at BAM May 24-27, is focussed on Rwanda.
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Academic researchers have also focussed on the systemic nature of many conviction errors.
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Kenny knew that he wanted to be a playwright, and focussed on that.
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Decades of debate have focussed on whether tourists should be able to climb Uluru.
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If hip-hop has historically focussed on invincibility, this generation is fixated on mortality.
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"Right now, everybody is laser-focussed on every detail of this Administration," he said.
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There are many stylistic threads on "Queen," but Minaj is most focussed on rapping.
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Like many successful people, McCaskill has the ability to stay focussed on one thing.
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Throughout the twentieth century, federal policy focussed on putting out fires as quickly as possible.
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But Trump is also focussed on his promise to voters to reinvigorate U.S. manufacturing jobs.
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Debate often becomes focussed on the scale of the benefits conferred and the costs extracted.
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At the time, GUYA was focussed on the arduous work of fighting individual deportation orders.
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Most of them focussed on Clinton's private e-mail server and her supposed health issues.
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Kobler's visit to Jathran focussed on continuing security cooperation with the GNA, diplomatic sources said.
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She had been a disengaged student, by her own account, mainly focussed on her music.
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I was critical of my wife and focussed on things I wouldn't normally care about.
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Warsaw, Indiana, has a cluster focussed on orthopedic devices; Wichita, Kansas, is big on aircraft.
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Rather than bring in thousands of refugees, Hungary was focussed on integrating its existing population.
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The most enchanting releases were audio collages, which focussed on the Middle East and Asia.
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And much of this crisis is focussed on the poor, whom politicians pretend to serve.
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He'd moved on from the salvation story and was now focussed on the race angle.
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Markets focussed on U.S.-China trade talks in Washington before high-level discussions next month.
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We, at Creator Fund, are delivering a new VC model specifically focussed on delivering this.
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Most Movida members focussed on art, music, or poetry, all of it cheap and quick.
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Duterte focussed on illegal drugs, an issue that has never registered among voters' major concerns.
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Private-equity lobbyists focussed on Chuck Schumer, of New York, and Maria Cantwell, of Washington.
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Santander said it was focussed on "sustainable growth" and had a conservative approach to risk.
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His first, published in 2009 was focussed on the defence of human rights and civil liberties.
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When the Spanish expanded their empire in the Americas, they focussed on gold and silver mining.
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Investors remained focussed on when, how and on what terms Britain will leave the European Union.
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We've focussed on apps that are particularly well suited to Gmail's search-first, organize-later approach.
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Tide will stay focussed on saving small business owners time — in future all across the world.
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The supplier assessment services is focussed on supplier risk management, health and safety and professional services.
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AND WE'RE FOCUSSED ON THE GROWTH POTENTIAL, THE LONG-TERM GROWTH POTENTIAL THAT PRESENTS FOR STARBUCKS.
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It focussed on the most urgent or worrying or puzzling facts: those which indicated something unexpected.
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Fusion focussed on open-source research—mind-numbing dives into the fine print of public records.
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He and Pele started a foundation focussed on food justice, with programs in Seattle and Hawaii.
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Georges, for his part, seemed worried that Simons was overly focussed on an extremely difficult problem.
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Jennifer Doudna: The research in my lab has always been focussed on understanding how molecules work.
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ECB'S MAKHLOUF SAYS WE SHOULD ALL BE FOCUSSED ON SUPPORTING THE HEALTH SYSTEM TO MANAGE CORONAVIRUS
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The nannies had no qualms; their heads remained lowered, focussed on screens, as if reading Scripture.
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Most of the hearings focussed on how Barr would handle the release of the Mueller report.
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But none of them seem to have focussed on helping Lyndsey move forward in her recovery.
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Originally, they focussed on uncultured species of actinobacteria, which had been a plentiful source of antibiotics.
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However, there are some early indications that fiscal policy might become more focussed on bringing down debt.
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Studies have focussed on geographic location, diet, genetics, even the influence of the daily walk to school.
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Their work, which focussed on Samsung and Huawei phones, was also published in a paper in February.
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And the other path, which I really want to call "soldier," was more focussed on combat buffs.
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That film occupied a smaller space in history and focussed on Milk himself, played by Sean Penn.
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Far from intimate, the Tobacco Docks offer something huge yet still resolutely focussed on the right things.
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Markets were also focussed on the Reserve Bank of Australia's policy review due later in the day.
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The prosecutors also focussed on his mobile phone, which had been tapped shortly before he was arrested.
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She focussed on health care early on, drawn by the demanding nature of working with the sick.
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From then on, the N.A.A.C.P.'s search for promising plaintiffs in desegregation suits focussed on female volunteers.
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"We're a mission-based creative agency, focussed on women-led companies and women-led campaigns," Corbett said.
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"For the first decade, we really focussed on all the good that connecting people brings," he said.
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He said that when his father had spoken of the war he'd always focussed on the civilians.
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BUT SO MANY PEOPLE ARE FOCUSSED ON WHAT THIS WILL MEAN FOR FIXED WIRELESS IN THE HOME.
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"Whenever you get near the stage, that means you are focussed on your performance," she told them.
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In 2016, an executive at an ad agency focussed on social media told the Times that Musical.
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He is now the director of PRIDE Community Services, a large local nonprofit focussed on alleviating poverty.
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Although the program focussed on Anbar Province, some Sunni sheikhs from the outskirts of Mosul also participated.
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The lyrics are very focussed on nature, which makes sense for a film set on the Yorkshire moors.
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Our eyes are focussed on elections,but this quiet decision can change the quality of life in India.
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We focussed on large chains, which would have room for advancement, and sent out a lot of applications.
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Officially, the raids, part of a program called Lavoro Sicuro ("Safe Workplace"), were not focussed on any ethnicity.
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It has customers in over 40 countries, but is mainly focussed on Western Europe, Taiwan, and, increasingly, China.
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At first, the foundation focussed on early-childhood education, pouring more than a billion dollars into various projects.
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They focussed on building new bridges and highways, and employed mainly reactive strategies for problems with older ones.
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But Islam has many potential outlets other than politics, and the imams now seemed focussed on their communities.
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In Arefaine's classes, Afewerki was described as a modest, nearly omniscient man, focussed on his people's well-being.
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It focussed on "markups", a complex calculation which tries to measure the "ratio of price to marginal cost".
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In a crowd of multiplayer games increasingly focussed on competition, Fortnite wants players to help each other instead.
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Fiscal consolidation in 2016 is focussed on curbing expenditure and a shift in tax revenues away from labour.
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"One hundred percent of our business was focussed on pigs, half of it is now gone," he said.
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With the world's media focussed on the story, and investigations underway, the various victims began to tell their stories.
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Localglobe is a new-ish seed fund focussed on helping London's great most ambitious founders build game-changing businesses.
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Connection and aggregation of people's accounts is the standard now, so we focussed on things like increasing financial literacy.
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The CMA said the investigation had focussed on the capsule form of Nitrofurantoin rather than tablets or liquid versions.
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Many focussed on agricultural and technical education, such as Tuskegee Institute, in Alabama, and North Carolina A. & T. University.
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And, with all the infighting in the new Administration, few have focussed on Pence's power within the White House.
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All the smartest minds are focussed on doing whatever they can possibly do to get those growth numbers up.
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Public health efforts are now focussed on slowing its spread to minimise the peak burden on the healthcare system.
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Other photographers focussed on the passing human comedy, but obliquely, snapping shots with a concealed camera, on the sly.
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He excluded personal gossip and salacious material, and focussed on evidence of Benfica's attempts to control the Portuguese game.
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"I don't think anybody should listen to me, because I haven't really focussed on it very much," he said.
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López founded his own clothing line, and Oliver focussed on hosting a new dance party called GHE20G0TH1K (Ghetto Gothic).
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Chief Executive Satya Nadella has focussed on cloud services and mobile applications on slower growth in its traditional software business.
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It said they were "different, yet complementary", with the IARC assessment focussed on hazard while the other looked at risk.
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On Monday, the markets are expected to react to U.S. President Donald Trump's inauguration speech which focussed on 'America First'.
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Tillerson sometimes played the naïve provincial for effect, but he and his company were ruthlessly focussed on achieving their aims.
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The search company is focussed on "drawing in local talent and there's no shortage of that in Ghana," she said.
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Jeff's Ph.D. focussed on compilers, the software that turns code written by people into machine-language instructions optimized for computers.
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But Cuban intelligence agencies never took their eyes off the U.S. "Everything that they did focussed on us," Cason said.
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WE CALLED OUT STRATEGIC PRIORITIES WELL GET FOCUSSED ON THOSE STRAGEIC PRIORITIES AND EXECUTE WITH DISCIPLINE AND CREATE SHAREHOLDER VALUE.
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Cale has been so consistently innovative, so focussed on ingenuity and instigation, that it's strange to watch him glance backward.
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In the past, they say it has focussed on asymmetric strikes, such as sabotage or other military action via proxies.
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But the vast majority of terrorism has focussed on the Egyptian police, the Army, or other representatives of the state.
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Chakrabarti said the EBRD and other lenders will be "very much focussed" on how Lebanon implements promised reforms and projects.
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Obokata resisted working on the stem-cell line; she wanted to remain focussed on the research she had been doing.
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He made the announcement on the ghats of Varanasi and focussed on the city's sewers and the tanneries of Kanpur.
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The group said it aims to raise a series of infrastructure funds focussed on Lebanon targeting $1 billion in total.
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Standard Chartered jumped 3.2% as investors focussed on strong results despite a warning on risks from the U.S.-China trade war.
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In retail, Alfa has focussed on lending to Russia's middle class and has a strong position in the credit card market.
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Going forward, my energy is focussed on closing the achievement gap and getting more black kids in honors and AP courses.
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Trade Bill The bill is focussed on converting trade deals between the EU and third countries into bilateral deals with Britain.
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Markets were largely focussed on the Netherlands' parliamentary election on Wednesday as well as the U.S. Federal Reserve's interest rate decision.
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All his work is focussed on ideas of history and invention—how we can use the past to unlock the future.
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So McMaster and his colleagues may have adopted a bunker mentality, and focussed on one thing that they could control: process.
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A number of business and industry figures criticised Trump's decision, while others focussed on what it might mean to their trade.
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For many years since, my work has focussed on how citizens and officials alike can be good neighbors to great rivers.
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It is intended to encourage trade among African nations which is focussed on manufacturing, rather than exporting commodities to overseas markets.
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Meanwhile, however, the app is yet to generate revenue whilst the team remains steadfastly focussed on growth and improving the product.
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Instead he used the tried and tested startup line that Helpling is focussed on its own goals not those of competitors.
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Right now I'm just focussed on producing, because I think if I did that, it'd slow me down a little bit.
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Others focussed on the fact that, despite his penchant for showmanship, he was not making a good case for his fund.
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At the time, the Hunger Project focussed on raising awareness about the problem, rather than on giving food to hungry people.
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Each year, they've focussed on a different country—they travel there and eat, drink, shop, party, and import their favorite finds.
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But much of the Party's work was focussed on providing community services in neighborhoods that had been neglected by the government.
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Klotz focussed on whether Cohen could be convicted of insider trading on the basis of the "2nd hand read" e-mail.
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SO FOR THE NEXT SIX MONTHS I'M WORKING CLOSELY WITH THE IRS ON THE IMPLEMENTATION AND ALSO VERY FOCUSSED ON SANCTIONS.
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He also told low-risk provinces to restore economic activity and output, while high-risk regions focussed on controlling the epidemic.
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Political debate in Washington has focussed on the number of troops deployed in Afghanistan and the losses that they have sustained.
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That's obvious in the case of Sanders, whose campaign has focussed on income inequality and the undue influence of corporate élites.
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For most of the twentieth century, Mallarmé scholars focussed on the texture of his texts, on the free play of language.
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Lady Lesurr Isn't Having It AnymoreFor all its freshness, grime's public face remains predominantly male and almost entirely focussed on London.
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"The vote is on Tuesday, that is what we are focussed on," Brexit minister Stephen Barclay told BBC TV on Sunday.
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At the time of Kennedy's election, Southern Democrats intent on perpetuating segregation clashed with Northern Democrats focussed on the economic conditions of the working class, Northern Democrats clashed with country-club Republicans focussed on the interests of business, country-club Republicans clashed with socially conservative Republicans opposed to the evils of modern life, and so on.
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Supported by a software engineering team made up of ex-Googlers, the Fly Ventures' tech is currently focussed on automating sourcing i.e.
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Kuznets had come up with his inverted-U-shaped curve only because he had focussed on too small a slice of history.
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"The market is very focussed on the immediate and now rather than the future," said Neil Mellor, an analyst at BNY Mellon.
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Saul Klein is a Partner at Localglobe, a new seed fund focussed on helping London's most ambitious founders build game-changing businesses.
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I was focussed on my photography, since I thought I would only have half an hour to, maximum, an hour in there.
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Investigators quickly focussed on the automated system that had pushed down both jets, a feature new to this model of the 737.
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The trouble was that he found it difficult, while explaining his job and drinking a beer, to stay focussed on the chicken.
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"They were overly focussed on the benefits to everyone, as opposed to the concerns of UK shareholders," said Liberum analyst Robert Waldschmidt.
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At the time, she was too focussed on the coming operation to pay much attention, but later she reflected on the occurrence.
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Saul is a Founding Partner at LocalGlobe, a seed fund focussed on helping London's great most ambitious founders build game-changing businesses.
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He focussed on two topics in particular: threatening Taiwan and defending the massacre of protesters in a Beijing square 30 years ago.
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So it does feel like a homecoming but in a much more 'focussed on what's happening in the studio' kind of way.
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" He left, she said, "to create space for someone else to lead, and he focussed on where he was being naturally pulled.
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But girls had always focussed on Micah, thanks to his good-looking rockabilly style, which went with his pompadour and his moves.
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" Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh focussed on the need to create a new society because "the third and final war is on its way.
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We hadn't thought that Hillary Clinton's campaign was specifically focussed on women, but we experienced her loss as a woman-specific disaster.
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Last summer, Pittman and Lehrer drafted a plan of action that focussed on revising a single clause of the Adam Walsh Act.
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They did it exactly because Caesar's style was so clear, efficiently sorting out Druids and Picts, always focussed on the main point.
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The RBI is focussed on attaining inflation targets - aiming for around 5 percent by March 2017, and 4 percent in the medium term.
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Last week, Waypoint focussed on the intersections between gaming and prison in the US, with our At Play in the Carceral State series.
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Miller said that she did not want to stand as an MP as she was focussed on her investment career and charity work.
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In the past, criminal cases about solicitation have focussed on cash, so Mueller's case would rest on a novel interpretation of the law.
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While most Trump critics focussed on the contents of the e-mail chain, a few zeroed in on Donald, Jr.,'s font choice.
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The market focussed on the Federal Reserve's noting, after its latest meeting ended on Wednesday, that both overall and core inflation had declined.
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Grace: Sometimes it feels like there's still quite a narrow view of Australian garage punk that is focussed on aggression, carelessness, and competition.
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I rate it: like the polymath she is, Dijon's always got one eye focussed on the present, and one darting around the side.
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When illness was experienced as a random catastrophe, and medical discoveries focussed on rescue, insurance for unanticipated, episodic needs was what we needed.
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The next month, the Mail on Sunday published a series of articles , focussed on Prince Andrew, which brought new attention to the case.
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The investigation into the San Bernardino massacre appears to be largely focussed on the question of whether the shooters belonged to a network.
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I did not know if she had slipped it free or if he, with his wrath focussed on Raymond, had simply let go.
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We don't drink, are both very focussed on our profession and contributing something positive to the world, we both value family above everything else.
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Among gainers, companies focussed on rural markets rose after the weather office said on Monday monsoon rains had covered nearly half of the country.
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While the study was focussed on the relationship between penis size and self-esteem, the photos were solicited to ensure participants were measuring accurately.
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But the prime minister told POLITICO that Brexit came up "not a lot" among voters he spoke to, with most focussed on domestic concerns.
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But they're recreating the vision of countless queer creatives, seemingly without understanding exactly why interviewers are so focussed on their aesthetic and their sexuality.
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Traders and investors are also focussed on meetings of major central banks -- including the U.S. Federal Reserve, which is expected to lower interest rates.
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Samhi has raised $240 million in equity since 2011 and has focussed on acquiring economy and mid-scale hotels and refurbishing or rebranding them.
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I think people can really be focussed on the album and what's at hand, but Santi takes a much larger view with her friends.
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"Roy focussed on the side horse, the most difficult apparatus in gymnastics, which requires lots of hours and pain to do well," he said.
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But in recent years kindergarten teachers have become increasingly focussed on imparting academic skills—largely in response to pressure to achieve measurable, testable results.
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He had helped found an association, called "100% Made in Italy," that focussed on insuring proper labor practices, but his rhetoric was unmistakably nativist.
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Rather than competing on price, in a marketplace steeped in counterfeit goods and shoddy service, JD has focussed on developing a reputation for dependability.
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We focussed on two of the largest nationwide providers, Corizon Health, which is based in Brentwood, Tennessee, and Wellpath, which is headquartered in Nashville.
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It looks like Netflix has been focussed on market share for a long time and continues to focus on maximizing subscriber numbers over profit.
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It sounds so egocentric, but I wasn't really that focussed on what Thomas was doing at the party—I only cared about my experience.
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On Thursday, the family was focussed on the holiday at hand, however — one that Joanna has said she enjoys flexing her design prowess for.
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If you'd told me ten years ago that I'd be totally focussed on burgers, I'd have thought, Well, that's not a life I want.
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Even fewer have done it naked while circled by twenty people whose gazes are intently focussed on each bend and angle of your body.
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The venture, building on LDC's juice division that has mainly focussed on bulk supplies rather than retail products, reinforces ties between the two companies.
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"Everyone is focussed on the virus which could hurt economic growth and curb demand," said one Singapore-based trader at an international trading company.
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Instead of remaining focussed on his own passions and desires, he subdued his mind to the discipline of the objective, of work and responsibility.
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BUT ALSO, WHAT I LOVE ABOUT HOME DEPOT IS THEY ARE REALLY FOCUSSED ON THEIR CUSTOMER AND WE HAVE REALLY BEEN THERE WITH THEM.
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It's natural that Guirgis, a lifelong New Yorker and a properly profane bard of the city, should be focussed on the subject of displacement.
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The Valley prizes overweening ambition but expects it to be "rifle-focussed" on making the world's best houseboat-rental platform or Cognac-delivery service.
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On the flip side, Standard Chartered jumped 3.2% as investors focussed on strong results despite a warning on risks from the U.S.-China trade war.
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Markets wave off global risks SYDNEY - Markets have brushed aside risks and recurring bad news on geopolitics to stay focussed on positive macro-economic cues.
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Bovis has largely focussed on cash generation by selling its non-performing assets and increasing its use of part exchange deals to return to profitability.
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Other points raised in the EU's démarche focussed on the need to build upon EU–Saudi dialogue to further cooperation, and reforms in the kingdom.
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Middleditch, too, has found himself investing in tech startups—in his case, businesses focussed on staving off climate apocalypse: solar desalination, stem-cell-grown leather.
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At launch, the glasses will mainly be focussed on using a built-in microphone and open-ear headphones to interact with Siri and Google Assistant.
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Prime Minister Theresa May said on Thursday she was focussed on persuading MPs to back her divorce deal with the European Union in a Dec.
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The move would represent a shift in the EU strategy to boost climate financing, which so far has focussed on new requirements rather than incentives.
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"Whether it's for ecology or to try and alert people to sharks,our project is focussed on developing the detection probabilities of sharks," added Johnston.
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The board has had to be reconfigured since the death of Louis-Dreyfus's youngest sister, Emma, a social worker who focussed on at-risk children.
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Latest economic figures on Tuesday showed British workers' underlying pay growth picking up faster than expected, although market attention is squarely focussed on Brexit headlines.
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Intra-African trade currently comprises less than 20 percent of the continent's total, with countries often focussed on exporting commodities to former colonial powers instead.
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Welch, who dressed the models, focussed on details—"the hoodie, the popped collar, the fringe"—in order to conjure a distinct character for each figure.
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Assange was understandably focussed on escaping from what he has defined as imprisonment, in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, and Trump could potentially help him.
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Aviran tried to keep Terrogence focussed on its core mission—counterterrorism—but some government clients offered the company substantial contracts to move in other directions.
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For the past twenty months, public attention has been focussed on the special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into possible Russian interference in the 2016 election.
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While the group focussed on new techniques and commissioned pieces, Shaw hung back and absorbed the new sounds, until they felt organic to her music.
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The reviewer was Edgar Z. Friedenberg, a sociologist, whose piece was not exactly a strike at the jugular; it was mainly focussed on sounding dismissive.
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Markets are now focussed on Friday's U.S. non-farm payrolls report, with investors looking at 200,000 new jobs for November, according to a Reuters poll.
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What scenes would make the cut, how the narrative arc would be formed, which parts of your identity would be focussed on and blown up?
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Focussed on what Mauro's vocation allows him to achieve (independence, creativity, a cheap meal for a friend), it eschews the "anecdotes that build a legend."
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Coverage of Sanders has focussed on his support among the young and the progressive, but he has also outperformed Clinton with the white working class.
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" Not watching, in the Obama household, he said, "is part of how you stay focussed on the task, as opposed to worrying about the noise.
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The researchers also identified political accounts focussed on politics in Armenia, Georgia, Israel, Taiwan, and Tunisia, suggesting the use of MSPs is a global issue.
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The compilation, titled "Big Dance: Short Form," unspools like a clever anthology of vignettes focussed on dance, one melting into the next with deceptive informality.
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At another conference, Neville met Josh Davis, a psychologist whose dissertation focussed on forensic analysis of CCTV footage, and on the risks associated with misidentifications.
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At one point, the core curriculum at the college level was focussed on: How do you get ready to be an active citizen in America?
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They've identified several radio interfaces - cellular modem, Wi-Fi, GPS and NFC - and have focussed on these areas over things like the barometer, microphone and camera.
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Attention focussed on which potential factors could prompt a reversal of such positions, causing the dollar to be sold and the yen to be bought back.
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As part of a wider reshaping of its activities, Gunvor decided to close its Bahamas trading office and open a London one focussed on natural gas.
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Much news coverage of this year's G7 summit meeting in Quebec, for example, focussed on the personal feud between Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
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Schmidt said before the deadly incident police had no indication the migrants would be in mortal danger inside the trucks and focussed on mapping the networks.
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This meant we were focussed on building a product that could meet even the most stringent data privacy laws with a view to further market expansion.
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In recent years, we have been focussed on two problems, social mobility and income inequality, and the place these issues appear to meet is higher education.
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O, a financial services firm focussed on East Europe and Central Asia, is considering a Moscow listing, after its shares began trading on New York's Nasdaq.
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Although the lab is influential, I had always assumed that it was more focussed on technology, art, design, and computer learning than on biology or genetics.
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He started working seven days a week, and focussed on housing: he visited constituents' homes, took pictures of building violations, and pressed landlords to make repairs.
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Obama's national-security adviser at the time, Tom Donilon, observed that Putin's concerns were then focussed on domestic political stability and perceived foreign threats to it.
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Insurance penetration remains relatively low despite strong growth over the last decade, and the sector is highly focussed on just two product lines, motor and health.
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The second day of "Aus licht " focussed on Lucifer, who, in keeping with Theosophical doctrine, is an ambiguous figure, bearing knowledge of both good and evil.
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From the beginning, the media, instead of uncovering and providing the details about Trump throughout his career, has focussed on his celebrity and his bombastic rhetoric.
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Germany's benchmark 10-year bond yield crept towards the six-month highs it touched last week, with bond traders focussed on the day's central bank meetings.
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Until recently, the criminal-justice victims the Kochs focussed on were businessmen who had run afoul of the modern regulatory state—that is, people like them.
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Elion and Mitchell love dance music — something you can cut up to, as Drake might say — but they wanted a track that focussed on the lyrics themselves.
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Thailand's central bank said it will hold a news conference on foreign exchange regulation reforms on Monday, as policymakers remain focussed on tamping down a strong baht.
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"Our Group continues to trade as normal and we remain focussed on delivering our turnaround plans," Arcadia Group Chief Executive Ian Grabiner said in an email statement.
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"Our Group continues to trade as normal and we remain focussed on delivering our turnaround plans", Arcadia Group Chief Executive Ian Grabiner said in an emailed statement.
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Instead of headlining festivals, the show was dedicated to those playing weddings, bar mitzvahs, school dances, and focussed on the boring (but important) behind-the-scenes minutiae.
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The second night was more heavily focussed on techno, and although it got off to a slow start, the payoff eventually came with Costa Rica's Esteban Howell.
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They saw a lot of companies looking at a more general AI for developers, but they had a different vision, one tightly focussed on Adobe's core functionality.
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Shawn Thierry, a Democrat from Houston, begged Freedom Caucus members to spare her bill, which would have commissioned a study that focussed on low-income black mothers.
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The Englewood volunteer firemen had already given up trying to stop the ranks of flames rolling across the prairie and were focussed on saving people and structures.
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With the midterms approaching, the company had discovered that Russia's model for exploiting Facebook had inspired a generation of new actors similarly focussed on skewing political debate.
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She was on her way to celebrate the launch of a new initiative focussed on women, and she had come directly from her office, in City Hall.
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"The TEDx Collaboration is focussed on working with designers who have spent their time developing communication for social good," writes Sanket Avalani, Art Director at Taxi Fabric.
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But those mismatches, however cute, reek of male self-congratulation, whereas Wilde is unerringly focussed on her heroines, and on their fundamental right to get things wrong.
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The company, focussed on plus-size clothing, reiterated its full-year product gross margin guidance and said product revenue fell 5.4% in 13 weeks to June 1.
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Instead, it appears when I'm focussed on the rhythm of a speed ball, or when I'm buying a ticket at the movies, or getting my hair cut.
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Lately, critics have focussed on Thomas R. Nides, who is seen as a contender for a prominent position in a Clinton Administration, possibly even chief of staff.
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It focussed on securing passage of an Equal Rights Amendment, drafted by Paul, who had lately earned a law degree, and first introduced into Congress in 1923.
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The first episode focussed on fur-suit seller OISK, which The Snake Busters hypothesized stands for "Outrageously Insane Snaky Krooks" after the company sent Ruby an unsatisfactory suit.
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Its shares surged 11 percent as investors focussed on the positive results rather than a cautious tone set by the company on Brexit and its impact on confidence.
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NON-LIFE PUSH FWD's next round of acquisitions is expected to be focussed on non-life insurance business, which covers automobile, real estate and travel insurance, said Huynh.
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They lie in bed playing cards or sit against the headboard, reading or watching TV. Rudy's notebooks are increasingly focussed on mortality—"Death may be pleasurable"—and money.
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Breed, the first African-American woman to hold the post, was focussed on homelessness, and she, too, liked to gauge the city's efforts by walking the streets unannounced.
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Zhao arrived in the United States in 1992, and focussed on graduate school in urban affairs and business, finding a job, his visa and citizenship, and family life.
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In 2016, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ( DARPA ) launched a program in Media Forensics, or MediFor, focussed on the threat that synthetic media poses to national security.
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In Afghanistan, the U.S. military was trying to defeat the Taliban and install a new government, while the C.I.A. was primarily focussed on killing members of Al Qaeda.
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Sanyal said the government was focussed on dealing with supply side shocks from the coronavirus outbreak and a fall in crude oil prices offered relief to government finances.
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She intends to stay focussed on her voting-rights work, but she did say that she would "be honored" to be considered as the Democrats' Vice-Presidential candidate.
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I think what he found is that people are as receptive to somebody speaking in multiple tongues as they are to someone clearly just focussed on the instrument.
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We’re focussed on the tragic chain of events that resulted in a plane crash that killed 276 people, 138 of them on their way to Canada.
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Sonatrach's expansion into refining and trading reflects a shift among national oil companies that for decades focussed on producing oil and gas, while leaving marketing to third parties.
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"Changi Airport is very focussed on making the airport experience comfortable and convenient, and continues to innovate with new product and services features," Plaisted added in the statement.
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STAY EASY Germany's benchmark 10-year bond yield crept towards the six-month highs it touched last week, with bond traders focussed on the day's central bank meetings.
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And that is that it's impossible to keep him focussed on any topic, other than his own self-aggrandizement, for more than a few minutes, and even then . . .
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"Manuel...is entirely focussed on achieving his targets for the season ahead and retains the respect and commitment of all involved with the leadership of the Club," City said.
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Attention for a long time was focussed on the pilot and co-pilot, with a report into the investigation finding there was no unusual behaviour exhibited by either men.
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The Fed kicked off its two-day meeting, with market participants focussed on the U.S. central bank's view on the economy as well as its guidance on future tightening.
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I try to use my time wisely and when I'm in school, [I'll] be very focussed on school, and then when I'm in music, be 100% focused on music.
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The movie, titled Wrong Answer, is based on a 2014 New Yorker story about the scandal that focussed on Atlanta teacher Damany Lewis at the center of the scandal.
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Winters' turnaround strategy has focussed on reducing costs, exiting low-return businesses, increasing investments on technology and sharpening focus on products and markets to become competitive and improve profitability.
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At a time when audiences have become hyper-focussed on the social and sexual open-mindedness of Gen Z artists, Cottrill refuses to allow anyone to fetishize her experiences.
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It had been my dream to dance for the choreographer since I first saw his work, and for a decade all my desire had been focussed on getting there.
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Annie has a best friend—her lesbian roommate, Fran (Lolly Adefope)—and a caring family, but she's so focussed on being nice that she's rarely honest, even with herself.
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One small canvas focussed on the fire hydrant, potted shrub, and melting snow on the curb out front; another highlighted security cameras protruding from a corner of the exterior.
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Euromonitor analyst Jack Skelly said most chocolate makers are focussed on cutting costs at the moment, noting that cocoa prices are still much higher than a few years ago.
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Not only do these incidents leave fans worried for their safety, they place increased strain on an already stretched police force that should be fully focussed on other matters.
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When an entire story is metaphorical, focussed on a single surreal image, it's helpful that individual sentences possess the windowpane transparency that George Orwell advocated as a prose ideal.
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With market focussed on U.S.-China trade spats, it showed no response to the Bank of Japan's tankan corporate sentiment survey that showed a drop in Japanese business mood.
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In his dual role as psychologist and deputy, Price was so focussed on unravelling the crime that he seemed to lose sight of the vulnerabilities of his former patients.
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With market focussed on U.S.-China trade spats, it showed no response to the Bank of Japan's tankan corporate sentiment survey that showed a drop in Japanese business mood.
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While many A.I. researchers were correcting errors by telling their systems, "That's a dog, not a cat," OpenAI was focussed on having its system teach itself how things work.
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He said he would back May if there was a confidence vote and that talk of a leadership challenge was distracting when the government should be focussed on delivering Brexit.
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Brisbourne told me the VC's remit remains focussed on e-commerce and marketplaces "in every vertical" not just what might be traditionally considered to fit those categories, such as travel.
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"Ofgem's mid-period review announcement this morning should not concern investors, as it is focussed on reviewing 3 specific projects in Transmission," analysts at Bernsteil said in a research note.
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Investors are also focussed on the G20 summit in Buenos Aires on Friday and Saturday, where Trump and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, are scheduled to discuss contentious trade matters.
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The prevailing idea was that prevention is better than cure—that aid should be focussed on vaccination and education, and that poor people should make do with what they had.
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Meanwhile, Metzinger, along with the philosopher Michael Madary, has drafted a virtual-reality "code of ethics" focussed on embodiment, which he believes makes V.R. fundamentally different from all other media.
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When Moonves and Peters met at his office to discuss the prospect, Peters told me, she came with a detailed presentation on her business model, which focussed on female audiences.
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"At the OpenStack Foundation, we are really focussed on the user community we built and solving their needs — and that's something that's bigger than the core OpenStack services," he said.
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His work on the English constitution focussed on a paradox: the pomp and circumstance of monarchy had an important function, he argued, precisely because the monarch had no real power.
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The company is mainly focussed on the sub-600,000 pound price bracket covered by the government's help-to-buy scheme, sheltering it from tightening at the top of the market.
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The SWAT -team members periodically helped herd I.D.P.s onto buses or direct them toward the camps, but for the most part they focussed on holding the line along the cemetery.
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Daniel Snowberg, the insider, would have sparked a national debate that focussed on the question of what access the N.S.A. should have to the private data of ordinary American citizens.
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In a letter to employees, Tata Sons' present chairman N Chandrasekaran, who was appointed in February 2017, urged everyone to stay focussed on the business and the welfare of stakeholders.
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From a young age, she dreamed of being an actress, and invented little plays, but instead of concocting plot-heavy tales, like many imaginative children, she focussed on her feelings.
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"The negotiations are now at a critical moment and all our efforts must be focussed on working with our European partners to bring this process to a final conclusion," she said.
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The MAS has been working on a fund focussed on infrastructure since 2015, when Singapore's Deputy Prime Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam mentioned it at the 2015 World Bank-Singapore Infrastructure Finance Summit.
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The U.S. retailer has been focussed on turning around its international business by targetting higher growth markets such as China and India and exiting or tying up with local players elsewhere.
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The Lisbon agenda ,which was the last time Europe focussed on an agenda, by now when you read it, nobody buys into that anymore and so they needs a new agenda.
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Investors are focussed on data for further clues about Federal Reserve policy after the U.S. central bank stunned markets in March by abandoning projections for any interest rate hikes this year.
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Witter said sharing the carmaker's electric cars platform MEB with Ford was theoretically possible, although the carmaker is currently focussed on rolling out the electric vehicle technologies among its own brands.
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U.S. newspaper operator MediaNews, which also owns a job-posting site focussed on New England, said it had amassed an 11.6 percent stake in Monster, the owner of Monsterboard and Jobs.com.
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Of nearly six hundred reports filed in the past year, he was alarmed by how many reports focussed on Muslim men, when only three per cent of New Yorkers are Muslim.
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The first comments from the White House about the meeting were drafted in part by Trump, and asserted that the conversation had focussed on adoption issues, which was misleading at best.
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Giuliani and Sekulow are also leading Trump's defense in the Mueller probe, which is focussed on Russia's role in influencing the 2016 election and on possible obstruction of justice by Trump.
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Mnuchin, a Wall Street veteran, added that Trump's comments that the dollar was too strong were focussed on short-term market factors that had pushed the greenback higher, hurting U.S. exports.
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When institutions such as the World Health Organization and the World Bank were created, they focussed on what public-health officials call "horizontal interventions": efforts to improve over-all health systems.
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The session ultimately focussed on the Big Tymers, which consisted of Baby and Mannie Fresh, and then Lil Wayne and Slim, who handled the business side of the Cash Money enterprise.
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Another study examined health-care reforms in Spain that focussed on strengthening primary care in various regions—by, for instance, building more clinics, extending their hours, and paying for home visits.
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In recent years, U.S. and international efforts have focussed on isolating Iran from the global financial system, in order to prevent it from funding terrorist groups and contributing to worldwide instability.
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The start of the inquiry has largely focussed on NAB's so-called introducer programme, where the bank rewards people who are not staff with commissions when they introduce potential home-loan customers.
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Investors were largely focussed on French politics, as far-right National Front leader Marine Le Pen launched her presidential bid, vowing to fight globalisation and take France out of the euro zone.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Theresa May is focussed on getting the right decision on Britain's future customs arrangements with the European Union rather than meeting any deadlines, her spokesman said on Monday.
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The BoE and Britain's banks are ready for whatever form Brexit takes, Carney said in an online discussion that focussed on the future of cash and the BoE's views on crypto-currencies.
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"I'm down for anyone who can make positive change in a positive way to give it a try," she said, sharing a trailer for her documentary 13th, which focussed on prison reform.
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The standard photo app optionImage: ScreenshotsWhile we've focussed on dedicated apps here, any major photo sharing platform worthy of a place on your phone is going to include private album sharing too.
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Small-cap recruiter Robert Walters surged 9 percent as investors focussed on the positive 2018 results rather than a cautious tone set by the company on Brexit and its impact on confidence.
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This feels pretty in keeping with Iceage's general sense of never wanting to have their own fixed definition, and Rønnenfelt's writing process seems focussed on making new meanings out of old ones.
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Schools that are focussed on "achievement" (which is measured mostly by test scores) and on "discipline" (which usually restricts choice and movement) tend to serve poor children of color in large cities.
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Whereas some high-level gamers grow too focussed on matches to speak, streamers like Kongphan are as garrulous as morning-radio hosts, able to talk enthusiastically—and to boost products—for hours.
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The book is a meditation on the intellectual outcomes of childhood trauma, an unfolding map of minds changing; the show, so focussed on the body, feels as if it were happening now.
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But now it was stopping, pivoting, focussed on Knitsy, whose hands fluttered like pale streamers in the ray of light it emitted, which had suddenly become more intense, like a flashlight beam.
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Until that point, much of the public had not focussed on the slow, complex investigation, but interviews at the time show that Nixon's stonewalling made people pay attention, and he never recovered.
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In the Auburn visiting room, they said, they had tried to keep the conversation focussed on strategies for Dennis's hearing, but, as invariably happened, Dennis had other things he wanted to discuss.
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Instead of being about the tension between the past and the future, about what was done to her and what she might do in response, her new songs are focussed on reconciliation.
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Russia's former ambassador to Washington, Sergei Kislyak, said on Saturday his conversations with former White House national security adviser Michael Flynn had been transparent and focussed on matters of U.S.-Russia cooperation.
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" Still, she focussed on child sex-crime victims, and it was easy to understand the common thirst for retribution among fellow-parents: "You can see the fear and anger, as a parent.
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Unlike previous hearings that have focussed on the very real concerns of foreign interference in US elections and preserving data privacy, the grounds for some of these latest accusations are much more spurious.
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While the post focussed on a video celebrating the completion of a prison scene, a portion of the post's caption appears to be an attempt to move forward from the on-set drama.
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"It's not really a decision that was expected to influence ZAR (rand) sentiment, the market is a lot more focussed on fundamentals in terms of the fiscal path of the country," Bothma said.
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VR The company profile of UBAF constrains its VR given its niche trade finance franchise focussed on flows between Europe or Asia and its core markets in the Middle East and North Africa.
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In November, ESR Funds Management (S) Ltd, the manager of ESR-REIT, and Sabana Shariah Compliant Industrial REIT called off their talks, which sources said were focussed on ESR-REIT buying Sabana REIT.
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In "Atlanta," Earn is not laser-focussed on hip-hop, either—in one scene, he wakes up on a couch, with music by the indie-pop band Beach House drifting from his headphones.
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If at a certain point I'd attempted to rebuild our relationship, things might have gone in another direction, but I was too focussed on what I wanted to do to make the effort.
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Osram became a takeover target after Berlien's strategy of turning it into a high-tech outfit focussed on LEDs and state-of-the-art laser chips failed to bring the hoped-for success.
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He shut down Grindr in favor of shoulder-friendly solitaire, but most of his attention, particularly during the initial lurch forward, was focussed on whether any of his fellow-passengers were hidden threats.
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Brexit did not for once dominate the meeting of EU leaders largely focussed on sorting out the top jobs at EU institutions, but the leaders did hold a short exchange on the topic.
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Royal Mail, the former postal monopoly, gained 7.2% - its biggest one-day rise in 5-1/2 years - as investors focussed on the company's new five-year turnaround drive instead of a dividend cut.
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In her annual report last month England's chief medical officer focussed on the importance of perinatal diet and health of mothers as a key focus in tackling obesity from pre-birth through to adulthood.
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While he's no doubt getting through the 265 experiments he's supposed to have on his To Do list, he seems to be more focussed on talking to his fans than getting serious work done.
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Benjamin was focussed on the orchestra, but, in a pause, he spoke from the pit to ask Orendt to prop himself up a little higher, so that he loomed more decisively over his lover.
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"The market was focussed on the dollar, Chinese data and the trade deal and, on all three, people have become a bit more confident," said Michael Widmer, analyst at Bank Of America Merrill Lynch.
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With a rate cut from the U.S. central bank near-certain investors will be focussed on forward guidance, as policymakers are deeply divided on the need for further easing amid improving U.S. economic data.
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Last week, though, he focussed on the "principles" that he and Trump share, adding, on MSNBC, that he had spoken to the candidates about his agenda and believed that Trump was "comfortable" with it.
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These misdeeds were different from the ones Hersey was focussed on in "The Legend on the License," but they take away some of the burnish from his image as the promulgator of sacred rules.
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As Reuters originally reported, he now heads an investment firm which is focussed on financial opportunities in a real estate market threatened by climate change, some of which could materialize as early as next year.
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LONDON (Reuters) - A hedge fund firm run by the former co-CEO of Barclays investment bank Jerry del Missier and focussed on the financial services industry has opened to external capital, del Missier told Reuters.
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Crown's stated intent of maintaining a significant stake in MCE after the partial stake sale along with its UK property, Aspinalls, add an element of geographic diversity to Crown's portfolio, which is focussed on Australia.
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Perhaps because the top executives at Bell Pottinger were focussed on internal rivalries, nobody involved in the decision to represent the Guptas appears to have deeply weighed the risk of working for such toxic figures.
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Though President Obama had decided to intervene in Sinjar, the limited U.S. assets in northern Iraq were focussed on protecting the U.S. consulate and the U.S. oil companies in Erbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan.
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It was heartening to overhear the other two couples, unknown to one another, start to talk à quatre —even if their conversation focussed on how awkward it is to talk to strangers in nudist restaurants.
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"The community of people that work in sensory substitution is very small, and ninety-nine per cent of them, including me, used to be very focussed on restoration, rehabilitation, and basic science," Amedi told me.
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"Conservatives like markets, I think markets are great … but markets are a means, one means, to the ends that conservatives are actually focussed on in terms of family, community work, these traditional institutions," he added.
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Airbus refused to speculate on what type of autonomous aircraft might arise from the project but said the design parameters focussed on "a high degree of autonomy, variable mission profiles and low levels of perceptibility".
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In Wells's view, a restaurant that is part of a fleet of restaurants may eventually become exciting, but it probably won't while it's still focussed on honoring a founding chef, or a group's house style.
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Markets will be focussed on Chinese gross domestic product data due at 0200 GMT, where analysts expect second-quarter growth to have slowed to 6.2% from a year earlier - the weakest annual pace since early 1992.
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In Europe, Holvi (coming out of Finland) was desktop-first and hasn't come to the UK. It also hasn't been focussed on being a hub for third party services, so therefore behaving more like a platform.
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LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Theresa May is focussed on the task at hand of getting her Brexit deal through parliament, her political spokesman said on Wednesday after several Conservative lawmakers renewed calls for her resignation.
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Investors also focussed on when the Federal Reserve is likely to next raise interest rates as a plethora of Fed officials deliver speeches this week, culminating in an address by Fed Chair Janet Yellen on Friday.
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As long as the startup remains steadfastly focussed on customer service and can provide a superior experience to competing online pharmacies, he thinks the company can take a decent chunk of what is a large market.
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The FTSE 250 was largely unchanged, but Marks & Spencer stood out with a 5% jump as investors focussed on the retailer's like-for-like sales growth in food business over a plunge in first-half earnings.
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While her mother's eyes are focussed on her, she signals with a nod for her husband to move in, and, with one synchronized lurch, her father reaches for her mother and her husband grabs their son.
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Instead of taking in a whole scene afresh each moment, as if it had never encountered anything like it before, the brain focussed on the news: what was different, what had changed, what it didn't expect.
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The pound slid against both the dollar and the euro as investors focussed on the differences that remain between the EU and Britain in agreeing the terms of their relationship after the UK leaves the bloc.
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Because many of the internal spaces felt like a ritzy shopping mall or an interior from a resort, I really focussed on the outdoor activities and deck areas, and also the covered pool and spa areas.
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Under the changes, Joyce Phillips, who led the division since its formation in 2012, would leave while the bank would form a new division known as Australia Wealth focussed on insurance, superannuation and investment, it said.
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Over the years, Rock Against Racism eventually evolved into Love Music Hate Racism, a concert which is less focussed on rock, and more encompassing of all genres, so as to represent a greater diversity of sound.
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Neurologists of the time, knowing nothing of brain chemistry, were heavily focussed on what could be observed at autopsy, but there were many mental illnesses that left no trace in the solid tissue of the brain.
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In response to rising violence, Kaine focussed on small fixes that could yield quick results, like providing local neighborhood-watch programs with cell phones to make it easier for those on patrol to call the police.
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The deal builds on a $300 million alliance Volvo announced with Uber last year focussed on collaborating on the design and financing of cars with self-driving systems, which require different steering and braking features and sensors.
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In particular, traders are focussed on a new offer Britain is preparing to make to the EU on the Irish border, aimed at breaking the deadlock in Brexit talks before a decisive EU summit in late October.
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The market was also focussed on the trade conflict between the United States and China, with comments by U.S. President Donald Trump over the weekend raising doubts about whether there had been any agreement to lift tariffs.
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YOU KNOW, SO CLEARLY WE'RE GOING TO STAY FOCUSSED ON DRIVING THE GROWTH AGENDA THAT WE'VE OUTLINED AND AT THE SAME TIME, RETURNING MORE AND MORE CASH TO SHAREHOLDERS IN THE FORM OF DIVIDENDS AND BUY BACKS.
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The New Negro, as he emerged in the twentieth century, was so narrowly focussed on literary and scholarly accomplishment that he tended, Gates insists, to neglect the most astounding cultural achievement of his own country and kin.
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This is seeing the challenger bank focussed on "doing one thing only and doing it well," (a current account), with a marketplace model akin to an app store where third-parties step in to provide additional functionality.
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He is less focussed on a specific threat—a quake on the San Andreas, a pandemic, a dirty bomb—than he is on the aftermath, "the temporary collapse of our government and structures," as he puts it.
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The Saturday attack raised the prospect of a major supply shock in a market that in recent months had focussed on demand concerns due to the erosion of global growth amid the ongoing U.S.-China trade dispute.
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With Wall Street closed for a U.S. holiday, the gold market was less liquid and investors were focussed on Friday's U.S. non-farm payrolls for indications on rate cuts from the U.S. Federal Reserve's July meeting, analysts said.
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Talk among traders this week has focussed on the risks of policymakers expressing concern at the dollar's gains or alternatively ramping up the predicted pace of future rate hikes in response to President-elect Donald Trump's spending plans.
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"At Paytm Payments Bank, our aim is to build a new business model in banking industry, focussed on bringing financial services to 100's of millions of un-served or underserved Indians," Sharma wrote in a blog post.
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With daughter Blue Ivy, 5, starting school this fall and two new family members keeping the superstars focussed on home life, it's not likely Queen B and her king will be leaving this gorgeous castle any time soon.
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"There won't be a single city for the whole continent but rather an integrated, polycentric network of financial hubs each focussed on specific expertise," François Villeroy de Galhau, the governor of the French central bank, said on Friday.
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ALGIERS, July 22015 (Reuters) - OPEC member Algeria says it will launch a new "economic growth model" for the next four years focussed on reforming the tax system to bring in more revenue and reduce dependence on energy exports.
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The dialogue surrounding the book focussed on two key topics – Springsteen's hatred of the satsuma-skinned fascist creeping up on the White House, and the "toxic confusion" of depression that has plagued him for nearly half his life.
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Bagehot's work on banking similarly focussed on the difference between appearances and realities, specifically the gap between the air of solidity and respectability cultivated by Victorian banks and the evident fact that they kept collapsing and going broke.
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For decades, social scientists, journalists, and policymakers have focussed on jobs, public assistance, parenting, and mass incarceration as the central problems faced by the American poor, overlooking just how deeply housing is implicated in the creation of poverty.
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Mike Birbiglia's lovingly detailed comedy "Don't Think Twice" is focussed on a New York improv troupe that's threatened by the centrifugal force of success when several members are tapped to audition for a "Saturday Night Live"-like show.
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In Gujarat, Modi had focussed on big-ticket projects, wooing car manufacturers and bringing electricity to villages; as Prime Minister, he introduced a sweeping reform of bankruptcy laws and embarked on a multibillion-dollar campaign of road construction.
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Brexit jitters were visible in a rise in British banks' funding costs and a fall in the share prices of companies that were focussed on domestic markets in Britain, he said, though broader volatility also reflected global trade concerns.
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Hungary-based Wizz, which is focussed on central and eastern Europe, said it had used existing option positions to secure the deal for the A321XLRs, bringing the airline's total of outstanding firm orders for Airbus aircraft to 276 jets.
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The startup originally focussed on providing a pay-at-table app to let you settle your restaurant bill "waiter-free," before adding additional services such as order and collect, order at table, pay at bar and customer loyalty features.
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Among the ideological waverings of Kennedy's reputation, one finds a conservative regard first being test-driven in speeches by Ronald Reagan, who focussed on J.F.K.'s Cold Warring, while Reaganite supply-siders viewed Kennedy as a tax-cutting confrère.
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Theresa May said on Sunday she was focussed on her plan for a relationship with the EU based on a common rulebook for all goods, and that she was "a little bit irritated" by constant speculation about her position.
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Because critics focussed on the ethics of "Missing Richard Simmons," not on its aesthetics, it was little noted that Taberski made use of the same arch humor and flamboyant pathos that had long been Simmons's own stock-in-trade.
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U.S. economic policy right now is not just uncoordinated; Congress is doing exactly the opposite of what the Fed thinks is appropriate, because it is collectively focussed on the midterm elections, not the medium-term outlook for the economy.
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Instead, Sisi mostly focussed on grandiose mega-projects, like the expansion of the Suez Canal, which cost more than eight billion dollars and, in the opinion of most economists, is unlikely to provide much benefit in the near future.
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The high-ceilinged, stripped-down corridor that was previously a zone for drinks and snacks is now essentially its own establishment (although it shares the dining room's kitchen), with a full menu focussed on husmanskost , or Swedish home cooking.
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With Wall Street closed for the Independence Day holiday, the gold market was less liquid and investors were focussed on Friday's U.S. non-farm payrolls for indications on rate cuts from the U.S. Federal Reserve's July meeting, analysts said.
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"This is something we're going to be more focussed on going forward... we are looking at outbound UK demand much more than before, and we haven't really reacted to events like this, but I think going forward we will," he said.
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At Fiit we are focussed on the future of fitness, and plan to make it addictive by combining the motivation of a world class studio experience with the convenience of a home workout powered by the fitness stars people follow.
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The hit above $1.26 for the first time in five weeks on Friday, on track for its best fortnightly performance in eight years as investors focussed on risky political events in the euro zone and businessman Donald Trump's U.S. presidential victory.
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At the time of the referendum, a fellow campaigner said Cummings "uses Soviet propaganda techniques" and focussed on two messages - leaving the EU would hand 350 million pounds to the public health service and that Turkey could join the bloc.
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Culverhouse tells me that the company is now focussed on building out features like the Skytap Container Management service for companies that want to use containers to bring existing applications to its cloud and to develop new applications on it.
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As well as the previously hyped threats – including the shift to commoditised digital-media buying, competition from consultancies and frenemies like Google and Facebook, and concerns over billing transparency – WPP's half-year results on Wednesday focussed on yet another foe.
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He was particularly focussed on the New York banks' dangerous practice of lending money to investors so that they could buy stocks "on margin," which overheated the markets and generated white-knuckle risk for the borrowers and the banks alike.
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While the first piece focussed on the 14th century and Native American witches and wizards, part two jumps forward to the bloodthirsty 17th century, which comes complete with religious intolerance, the Salem Witch Trials, and grim magical mercenaries known as "Scourers".
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But despite BoE rate-setters last week trying to drive home the message that interest rates are likely to rise, the market focussed on the fact that policymakers voted 6-2 in favour of keeping rates at their record lows.
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Another steep faller on the main index was Just Eat, which skidded 6% to a four-month low, as investors focussed on the takeaway group's comments about a structural shift in Britain over a sharp rise in third-quarter revenue.
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He was more focussed on the question of how to make a "new" language live in an old form, and what could be more dramatic for his largely white audiences than black bodies exhibiting their distinctly American suffering and triumph?
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It said it was still cooperating with the SFO but reiterated neither the company nor any of its current employees or officials had been accused and that it was focussed on bringing the matter to a close as fast as possible.
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Because many of the epoch's defining effects—climate change, ocean acidification, deforestation, mass extinction—are unfolding at a rate faster than geology typically records, scientists have focussed on evidence that is easier to identify: fallout from nuclear tests or plastic residues.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. dollar index dropped slightly on Tuesday as investors focussed on the U.S.-China trade war and economic data for signals of growth and whether the U.S. Federal Reserve is likely to cut rates in the coming months.
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While the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) under the former governor, Urjit Patel, sounded hawkish at the meeting, the panel, under the new chief, Shaktikanta Das, might be more focussed on boosting growth and cutting rates after a recent sharp decline in inflation.
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"NAB is absolutely focussed on improving the customer experience, and our new App will give customers more control of their cards so it better suits their individual needs," Angus Gilfillan, executive general manager of consumer lending at NAB, said in a statement.
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This is due to starting from a relatively low base of insight and also due to fragmentation - Treasury "owning" financial services, DH-BEIS both covering life sciences, DCMS for telecoms, BEIS most other industries, DIT building parallel capability focussed on trade etc.
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Dealers said a week shortened to four days by the Good Friday holiday was likely to be focussed on guidance from individual Federal Reserve policymakers after the U.S. central bank just about left open the door to a June rise in interest rates.
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Instead of investigating whether Russia tipped the electoral scales on its own, they've focussed on the possibility that Trump colluded with Russia, and that this, along with other crimes, might be exposed by the probe being conducted by the special counsel, Robert Mueller.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary nominee Steven Mnuchin said on Thursday it was important to maintain a strong dollar in the long term, adding that President-elect Donald Trump's recent comments that the currency was too strong were focussed on short-term impacts.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The euro weakened against the U.S. dollar on Wednesday as investors focussed on whether European Central Bank President Mario Draghi will give any indications that the central bank will begin tapering its bond purchase program when it meets on Thursday.
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To viewers who complain that the show has become too focussed on politics, Bourdain responds that food is politics: most cuisines reflect an amalgamation of influences and tell a story of migration and conquest, each flavor representing a sedimentary layer of history.
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He blamed the government, not Timothy McVeigh, for the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, in Oklahoma City; while the mainstream press covered the Monica Lewinsky scandal, Jones focussed on Bill Clinton's purported ties to secret societies like the Bohemian Club.
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By the end of the eighties, Patagonia was approaching a hundred million dollars in revenues, dwarfing the sales of Chouinard Equipment, which had stagnated as Chouinard soured on the popularization of climbing and focussed on the soft-goods side of the business.
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Instead, he focussed on the soldiers' everyday lives, when they weren't at the front: the little breaks, the downtime when nothing was happening, soldiers with grubby faces waiting to hear the whereabouts of their artillery batteries or playing cards at a staging post.
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If you missed the Chinese mission, maybe it's because you were focussed on the remarkably inexpensive spacecraft from SpaceIL , an Israeli nonprofit organization, which crash-landed into the moon on April 20073th, soon after taking a selfie while hovering above the lunar surface.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The pound hit above $1.26 for the first time in five weeks on Friday, on track for its best fortnightly performance in eight years as investors focussed on risky political events in the euro zone and businessman Donald Trump's U.S. presidential victory.
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Carie Li, economist at OCBC Wing Hang Bank in Hong Kong, said market will be focussed on whether China and the United States can sign the phase one deal at November's Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit and push forward with the second phase negotiations.
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Investors are focussed on the ECB meet on Thursday, with money markets pricing in a more than 50% chance of a 10 basis point cut in interest rates and bond investors expecting at least a clear promise of action in September to counter slowing growth.
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When he returned, he focussed on his solo work, recording two albums ("Doris," from 2013, and "I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside," from 2015) that were difficult to absorb, not because they were gruesome but because they were stylistically abstruse and emotionally raw.
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While Reserve Bank of India (RBI) under the former Governor Urjit Patel sounded hawkish in the monetary policy minutes, the panel, under the new chief Shaktikanta Das, might be more focussed on boosting growth and cutting rates after the recent sharp decline in inflation.
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Hot 21's Summer Jam (MetLife Stadium, June 213) shares the weekend, offering a roster focussed on the brilliant new generation of women in rap, from the headliner Cardi B to the slick Southern spitter Megan Thee Stallion and the rising Detroit rhymer Kash Doll.
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Since his election, many analyses of his political program have focussed on his ties to the alt-right, a nebulous and evolving constellation of dissidents who sharply disagree with many of the conservative movement's widely accepted tenets—including, often, its avowed commitment to racial equality.
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The CDU enjoyed a 12-point lead over the SPD in August at the start of the campaign, which has focussed on regional issues such as education and also an influx of migrants to Germany over the last two years, but has since shed support.
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So there comes a day, sometime during that eighth month, a Tuesday, when I'm working at home and Connie's at the office, and I'm so focussed on the problem at hand that I keep putting off my bathroom break until the morning's nearly gone.
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Though I applaud AltSchool's desire to create an educational environment that is both interesting and productive, the endeavor strikes me as geared not toward children but, rather, toward parents who are focussed on finding achievement-oriented systems that will create the next generation of leaders.
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" She calls out Beyoncé and Taylor Swift, saying that their feminism is more focussed on marketability than on change: "It's a feminism that trades on themes of sisterhood and support—you-go-girl tweets and Instagram photos, cheery magazine editorials about dressing to please yourself.
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Against that backdrop, May's tour is focussed on meeting a cross-section of voters to reassure them that she is working to tear down the barriers thrown up by the referendum, and that whether they voted "Leave" or "Remain", they will be better off after Brexit.
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These Jews are only a minority of the roughly six million who live in the United States, but they tend to be more focussed on issues pertaining to Israel, and are, in some cases, willing to spend a great deal of money to influence U.S. policy.
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"We still think the dollar is going to strengthen over time based on the outlook for U.S. monetary policy... but for now, with markets not heavily focussed on monetary policy, it could explain this consolidation (for the greenback)," said Eric Viloria, currency strategist at Wells Fargo.
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"Central and eastern Europe is on the radar of those big investors who have established their presence in western Europe and it is a natural next move for them," said Stefan Kolibar, head of marketing at StudentMarketing, an independent research company focussed on student housing data.
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The request was so plainly an abuse of Presidential power—Zelensky was awaiting delivery of military aid already approved by Congress—that Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House, launched an investigation focussed on impeachment , to be led by Adam Schiff, the chair of the Intelligence Committee.
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"We remain focussed on delivering our strategic priorities and investing in the areas that matter most to our customers - innovation in our own brand, lowering prices and in continuously improving our shopping experience both in store and online," Asda president and chief executive Roger Burnley said.
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"While the pilot is focussed on retail property leasing, this technology has the potential to benefit many sectors and reduce the risk of fraud across billions of dollars guaranteed by the banks," Didier Van Not, general manager corporate and institutional banking at Westpac, said in a statement.
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With that said, Diaz concedes the kids educational gaming market is a crowded space, but argues that Yogome is seeing success because the startup has focussed on creating "an engaging story for the kids where they are the heroes who save the world with the power of their knowledge".
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But markets focussed on the Bank's lowering of its 22019 growth forecasts, to 21.7 percent from 253.8 percent in May, as well as its unexpected reduction of its inflation projections, which it put at just under 1.32670 percent in a year's time after peaking around 1.31423 percent in October.
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Free for Android and iOSKatchUp Image: Screenshots KatchUp has a bit of a broader remit than some of the other apps we've featured here—it includes photo printing for example—but at its core it's focussed on shared albums that you and your invited friends can contribute to.
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But markets focussed on the Bank's lowering of its 22019 growth forecasts, to 21.7 percent from 253.8 percent in May, as well as its unexpected reduction of its inflation projections, which it put at just under 1.32670 percent in a year's time after peaking around 1.31423 percent in October.
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There were no economic data to drive the pound on Wednesday, and traders remained focussed on the Bank of England policy meeting next week and a European Union leaders summit where Britain has said it will announce a deal on its relations with the bloc immediately after Brexit.
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In an essay for New York , Sorkin recounts how, after finishing a bad draft, he realized that he could not "swaddle the book in bubble wrap and transfer it gently to a stage"; instead, he focussed on Atticus and his transformation from one kind of man into another.
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The stars, the spectacles, and, for a while, the money got bigger than ever, but the hit factories had become so efficient at reproducing their winning formula, and so focussed on releasing songs that could appeal to people across the whole of Asia, that the product became homogenized.
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WHAT HAPPENED THERES BEEN SOME NEW ENTRANTS IN THE MARKET COMPETITORS THAT ARE FOCUSSED ON DELIVERY AND THEYRE SUBSIDIZING THE DELIVERY WE HAVE A VERY, VERY STRONG MOBILE ECO SYSTEM IN CHINA WE HAVENT LIT UP MOBILE ORDER AND PAY AND DELIVERY WE HAVE MOBILE PAYMENT IN CHINA.
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Nobody knew at the time that the worst and most paranoid elements in the national government were hysterically focussed on what was, after all, a small rebellion in a remote rural prison, one where the inmates had no guns and every conceivable long-term advantage lay with the authorities.
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Jeff Hauser, who runs the Revolving Door Project, a nonprofit focussed on government corruption, told me that Icahn's relationship with Trump is a particularly bald example of a kind of clientalist politics that has been more typical, historically, of banana republics, but which is on the rise in the United States.
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The statement said he would discuss Toyota's recently announced plans to build a new car with Suzuki in Britain and "reassure them that UK Government is focussed on avoiding a no-deal Brexit and on agreeing a deal which that will ensure tariff-free frictionless trade between the EU and the UK".
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The indictment was narrowly focussed on their double billings and their sloppy accounting, but, in a detailed summary of the investigation, Jaclyn O'Malley, who led the probe for the Nevada Attorney General's Office, made passing references to the "collusion of hospital social workers and medical staff" who profited from their connection to Parks.
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I focussed on my breath, as everyone I'd interviewed had said to do, and then, for fun, I started thinking about the people I love, arranging them first alphabetically and then hierarchically, as the people around me puked and wailed in the dark and Little Owl sang and played her little flute.
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There was an audio clip of an interview she had given to a media company; a list of her public appearances; and blog posts signed by her, the most recent focussed on a new law against domestic violence, the first of its kind in China, which excluded protection for victims in same-sex relationships.
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In choosing a case that would advance a desperately needed argument about reproductive autonomy, Ginsburg had cleverly selected one in which the litigant had chosen to have a baby, rather than to end a pregnancy, so that the Court's attention would be focussed on the equality claims of women (and not on the politics of abortion).
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Even though they are modest—focussed on making background checks that are already required more efficient, and on narrowing the loophole that allows unlicensed individuals to sell firearms (often online or at gun shows) without conducting any background checks on buyers—they show that something other than weary capitulation to the gun lobby is still possible.
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She began approaching Democratic donors and businesspeople to pitch the idea of an organization focussed on three core beliefs: that if people work full time they should be paid enough to meet their basic needs; that regular people deserve as much political power as the wealthy; and that rich people and corporations should pay higher taxes.
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Most of NATO 's members had failed to fulfill the goal of spending two per cent of G.D.P. for defense, but Trump focussed on Germany's military spending of just over one per cent of G.D.P. In front of television cameras the previous day, he had accused Germany of being "totally controlled by Russia," because of a proposed new gas pipeline.
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" The NRA didn't create this shift, but it became the vehicle for it, as Osnos writes: "in 1977, at the N.R.A.'s annual meeting, conservative activists led by Harlon Carter, a former chief of the U.S. Border Patrol, wrested control from leaders who had been focussed on rifle-training and recreation rather than on politics, and created the modern gun-rights movement.
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SO WE TALKED ABOUT THOSE PILLARS BUT SPECIFICALLY THOSE THAT ARE REALLY FOCUSSED ON POVERTY, BRINGING PEOPLE OUT OF POVERTY AND THE ONE THAT I THINK AS YOU POINT OUT IF THE CONGRESS WERE TO BE DIVIDED THE ONE THAT TO ME SEEMS RIGHT AT THE CORE OF WHAT WE OUGHT TO BE ABLE TO DO IS MAJOR INVESTMENTS IN INFRASTRUCTURE AND THEN WORK FORCE SKILLS.
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And NextGen America, a Democratic political action committee founded by billionaire and 2020 presidential contender Tom SteyerThomas (Tom) Fahr SteyerTwo new polls show Biden with big edge on Warren, Sanders Biden inches higher atop 85033 Democratic field: poll The Hill's Morning Report - Dem lawmakers put guns, hate groups on fall agenda MORE, launched a six-figure digital ad campaign Thursday focussed on the Virginia state elections.
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While he was in the ballroom giving the actors notes, the Times posted its latest exposé of Harvey Weinstein's serial abuse of women; it focussed on the "complicity machine" enabling him, including agents at C.A.A. When Canals, sitting near a bank of monitors, read the name of Bryan Lourd, one of Murphy's agents, he gasped and held up his phone to show Murphy's assistant.
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Nobody said another word to him, which was all right with him—he just focussed on the television behind the bar, some news channel, and tried to interpret the words the people were saying there while the backdrop shifted from warplanes and explosions to some sort of pageant with models on a runway, looking raccoon-eyed and haughty and not half as good as Rosa Hinojosa.
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