You might start the day with a clear list of priorities, but then your attention is diverted by any number of distractions.
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It delivers the safety information pretty straight, but rewards your attention with quirky moments hidden here and there, like the guy who stows his accordion, or the man with two left feet, even a brief glimpse of Abraham Lincoln.
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Listen to your boss of course, but also pay close attention to your colleagues and subordinates.
He has, after all, commanded the center ring in Washington this year. (We've changed metaphors here.) But may we call your attention to the Senate ring where Bob Dole is juggling the roles of majority leader and presidential candidate...and to the Oval ring where Bill Clinton is wrestling with all sorts of lions and tigers.
Your email, phone and colleagues will try to pull your attention away, but you may become so engrossed in solving your puzzle that you can concentrate until you find the answers.
But while I still have your attention, a row has broken out between the UK and Welsh Governments.
AwayFind is another iPhone app that can screen messages so only urgent ones come to your attention, but it has a few advanced features as well.
Open science can have many different meanings, but I want to focus your attention on people who are making health care decisions every day and depend on the availability of all the information that is relevant to the options that they are considering.
Sure, that last one may sound a bit far-fetched, but with thousands of companies competing for your attention, there's no telling what crazy implementations we'll see this January.
"At 90 you turn your attention rather more not to ambition, but what you should do with your life and how you should live it, for the little time you may have left, " she mused.
But if so, many economists would say focusing all your unconventional attention on how government borrowing is financed misses the point.
"If I'm just in the browser I need you to launch the browser, but if I'm an app, we can grab your attention, " he said.
But what will serve the world much better is to focus your attention on what you can do differently to make yourself a better one.
These are just three examples of how a savvy investor can cherry pick their favorite investment ideas from mutual fund managers to lower their investment expenses, but be cautioned, this strategy will take more of your time and attention as well.
Thing is, for us (and likely many of you), they last far longer than our clinically-diagnosed Gadget Attention Deficit Disorder would ever tolerate -- but for your dad, your sister, your college buddy with the hand-me-down ZEOS Pantera running Windows 95, or anyone weary of re-upping a two-year commitment, a handset can easily become a serious long-term investment.
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You apparently want it badly enough to launch a lawsuit that casts skeptical national attention on your professionalism and the content of your personal character, but not enough to simply suck it up and do the class over again.
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But then, it dawned on me, me that this column might succeed in catching your attention.
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You may find that you are using a less popular computer brand which has yet to attract the attention of criminals, and your firewall may keep out some intruders, but all computers, if connected to the internet, are vulnerable.
You may see the Arhuac in Pueblo Bello, with their white serapes (a long blanket-like shawl), tall coned hats, long black hair and beautifully stitched handbags slung across lean shoulders -- but they will rarely meet your gaze, looking down or off to the side, avoiding attention and gliding past with a cool effortlessness.
But in the short run, no one is paying attention to how you show up in your business.
Of course, the new link may be so alluring as to take your attention away from the original site--and that's a danger--but it does solve the issue of having fresh content constantly renewed.
The celebrity may not drive a ton of traffic to your site via social media, but you can use this connection to craft an exciting story about your brand and thereby attracting the attention of bloggers and even reporters.
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But you did sell securities from the trading desk even on deals where you could no longer give them your full attention?
But if you want to make sure your losses do some good for you this year, you need to pay attention to something called the "wash sale rule, " which disallows a realized loss if you purchase the same, or "substantially identical securities, " 30 days before or 30 days after the day you booked the loss.
But there's another very important fact that has been, thus far, overlooked, and let me draw your attention to this.
They might be awful, but you gain nothing by calling attention to this fact (and no one cares that the quality was out of your control).
You might remember Zipwhip from its SMS-enabled espresso machine, but the outfit's hoping a new feature added to its cloud-based text-messaging platform will catch your attention this time around.
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