So utilities have changed their focus from investments in growth to investments in renewal and replacement.
In practice, managers shift their focus from producing low-cost or high-differentiation offerings to satisfying customers.
He moved to California in 1980 and later switched his focus from surgery to research.
The repeal of prohibition in America turned organised crime's focus from booze to drugs.
Recessions remove focus from an old basket of goods into what satisfies new market demands.
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Put another way: Data tools are shifting the focus from what did happen to what can happen.
Perhaps the most positive aspect of this election is the change in focus from four years ago.
This only happened when they shifted their focus from reading business plans to evaluating the entrepreneurs themselves.
If you change your focus from near to far, the shift in light quality is almost imperceptible.
The rumours were "misleading and being used as a bogey to divert the focus from the real issues".
Kobo's focus from day one has been to bring reading to more people in more countries around the world.
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Given its large presence in the U.S., Wal-Mart has shifted its focus from expanding stores to improving store productivity.
But the bank might do more harm than good if it shifted focus from absolute poverty to relative deprivation.
Removing focus from the Amazon API seemed like the wrong strategy for Citrix.
Posing the question as all-or-nothing takes the focus from that more thoughtful conversation.
It shifted the environmental movement's focus from protest (trying to change the law) to advocacy (trying to apply it).
Fourth, and most dramatically, De Beers intends to shift its focus from controlling supply and fixing prices to driving demand.
One of the central achievements of a thriving civilization is to shift people's focus from daily survival to the longer term.
Scoble, a well-known blogger for many years, surprised many in the past year by shifting focus from his blog to social media.
By shifting focus from technology operations and maintenance towards innovation, organizations can reduce costs and remain competitive in a challenging economic market.
It has moved investors' focus from long term to instant gratification--and done so amid the noise level of a busy craps table.
Focus from the outset is on quality of community member participation, too.
But before the young staffer can answer, he's in the member's office, switching his focus from his spreadsheet to the size and layout.
When an entity shifts focus from how to change and grow to how to avoid loss, at that moment it begins to die.
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That may trigger a counter-reaction in which some of the president's liberal allies shift their focus from the administration's missteps to the opposition's overkill.
The waiting room is usually cold and sterile, enlivened by just a few company trinkets to divert your focus from your impending 30-minute inquisition.
At a minimum, any celeb running a company would do well to do everything to shift the focus from themselves and back to the business.
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The critical stage in their development was switching focus from trying to figure out how to make a cheaper hospital incubator to flat-out saving lives.
This consolidation is now favoring the shorts as the growth of stop-losses below the single units 1.2950 level may eventually shift market focus from 1.3000.
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Over the past several years, Nvidia has broadened its focus from graphics processors (GPUs) for personal computers to processors for smart phones, tablets, and supercomputers.
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