The overall frequency of our interactions has increased, but my ability to focus on them and only them has become more challenging in this age of distraction.

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"However, most of them focus on school dinners only, " said Dave Payne, Martha's father.

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Many people who want to improve their savings simply wait for their boss to give them a raise, or else they focus only on cutting back expenses.

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That enabled them to place the focus squarely on the beautiful fabrics, not only rich and soft but also mind-bendingly complex in their construction, to hear the designers describe it.

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Rather than trying to improve all dimensions at once, I encourage companies to focus only on one or two critical items with each survey cycle (another reason to ideally conduct them once or twice a year).

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Previous on-chip nanofocusing devices were only able to focus light into a narrow line, making them inefficient, whereas Caltech's contraption can be focused in three dimensions, producing a point a few nanometers across, and using half of the light that's sent through.

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The neoconservatives' focus on democratization blinded them to the fact that authoritarian and problematic allies like Mubarak were often the only possible allies available to the United States.

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