And that the best changes you can make for yourself in the year ahead, whether in what you do each day or how you do it, are going to exact perseverance, courage and focused effort.
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Calls for focused and sustained effort at other discussions mean calls for a focused, sustained effort to save financial institutions.
Hamilton knew he could beat his former team-mate Heikki Kovalainen day in day out, and so all the resources and effort were focused on him.
Yes, it will take concerted focused and dedicated effort to get it done right.
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In 2009, the El Dorado Task Force, a joint federal and state law enforcement effort focused on money laundering and other financial crimes, built an air-tight case against nearly a dozen Con Edison employees for taking kickbacks from contractors that performed gas line and electrical work for Con Edison on construction projects in New York City and Westchester County.
My own strong preference is that it focus less on acquiring mortgage-backed securities and be more of a tightly focused effort to minimize foreclosures and home vacancies that drive down property values for all of us.
But when the cost and risk become too high, more effort needs to be focused on safety, and more care in analyzing the risk.
This is where Lamia and his team focused much of their effort.
But it is at the grass roots where arguably the need is greatest and the most effort is being focused, according to Chaubey.
Four years ago, I was part of another research effort focused on the top priorities of CMOs, and number one on the list was to be viewed by their peers as strategic thinkers.
Given that what Cisco really needs is more new products in growth markets, products in places where demand is growing, it was a good move in 2009 for Chambers to implement a market-focused organization structure in an effort to seek out growth opportunities and fund them.
Smaller, focused meetings should be expected instead of jamborees that take too much effort and usually produce slight results.
The effort was focused on connecting minority professionals, entrepreneurs, investors, students and industry leaders to engage, network, collaborate and exchange ideas.
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It took years of focused effort among many nations to bring the NPT into force four decades ago and to sustain it as the most widely embraced nuclear agreement in history.
So our diplomacy -- our diplomatic effort in this case has always been focused, as I said before and you quoted me saying, putting him in the best possible position to achieve his goals, the goals that he stated repeatedly.
British Prime Minister David Cameron said Monday the effort to evacuate workers is complete and that U.K. officials are now focused on bringing the bodies of slain British hostages back home.
And our government has been focused on this as an all of government -- all of government effort, again, in an integrated way as part of our overall effort in the region.
Fitzsimmons says his fund recently has focused on financial services companies like Commonwealth Bank, Macquarie Bank and National Australia Bank in an effort to benefit from the overall prosperity of the economy, which is expected to grow 4.8% this year.
It implies that you know where you're starting from, that you're clear about where you want to go and that you will make core choices about how to get there, with a consistent, focused effort to travel down your clear path.
The plan is to raise money for Save the Children's Rewrite the Future program, which is focused on educating children whose lives have been disrupted by armed conflict, and Kiva's effort to provide small loans to entrepreneurs in the developing world who need capital to improve their lives.
And Peter Kim of Forrester, a consultancy, points out that when Microsoft sent laptops loaded with its new Windows Vista software to influential bloggers in an effort to get them to write about it, the resulting online discussion ignored Vista and focused instead on the morality of accepting gifts and the ethics of word-of-mouth marketing.
Through the 1970s, when it was still known as Blue Ribbon Sports, the company focused its business model on finding low-cost producers overseas in an effort to undercut competitors and gain entry into the marketplace.
And while 20 out of 110 is no where near 50 percent (it is in fact just over 18 percent), it is a figure that represents a focused effort by Etsy to better represent their user base (which is 80 percent female) and bring diversity to a previously gender-homogenous group.
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