The high level of attention and widespread concern about its problems and image now are partly due to the Dreamliner's difficult development.
Lithuania, for example, fought a hard and lonely battle earlier this year to get the EU to pay more attention to Georgia and other issues that concern Russian bullying.
And behind each of these stories are major developments that deserve of our attention and, more often than not, our intense concern.
And usually those attempts to distract attention are driven by a concern that the person attempting to distract is losing the debate on the substantive issues.
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But amidst the heated debates about functionality and pricing, one concern has received relatively little attention: should Amazon be competing in the tablet market in the first place?
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Where most attention has centred on reactors 1, 2 and 3, there is also concern about the spent fuel pond in reactor building 4.
Penn, who had filmed a remake of the film "All the King's Men" in New Orleans and other parts of Louisiana, said getting attention wasn't a concern during his mission, which he said rescued 40 people.
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And does he have some concern that people aren't paying attention to this?
"Our main concern is that nothing happen on the carpet that diminishes the attention and respect being paid to the nominees, " says Ric Robertson, its chief operating officer.
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As I was saying: There is concern that consumption of Internet media is affecting our concentration, our sleep and attention, even the very shape of our brains.
And I'm a college student from Fudan University, and today I'm also the representative of China's Youth (inaudible.) And this question I think is from Beijing: Paid great attention to your Afghanistan policies, and he would like to know whether terrorism is still the greatest security concern for the United States?
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The one concern that caught my attention, however, is the critical issue of measurement of social impact and its link to investor returns.
Now, maybe Japanese attention has simply been refocused on Asia and specifically China, and therefore the U.S. is less of a concern.
Worse yet, U.S. policy-makers -- and here, I regret to say, I must assign some blame to the legislative branch as well as the executive branch -- have seized upon the perceived public's lack of concern with security policy to take steps that will greatly magnify the dangers of applying inadequate leadership, attention and resources to world affairs.
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