The financial turmoil that swept the region two years ago has turned attention to internal problems, rather than regional solidarity, and many countries have cut defence spending sharply.
Even worse, with all of the attention on internal process changes, many of the newly acquired companies lost focus on their customers and saw falloffs in revenue in the first year.
Parents don't have to pay payroll taxes on such payments as long as their children are under 18, but they must pay a market wage and the children have to be doing real work to avoid attracting the attention of the Internal Revenue Service.
Attention to detail including internal cable routing and custom formed parts throughout bring clean integration to a whole new level.
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Israel is concerned that Assad, if he is facing defeat, might try to draw Israel into the fighting to divert attention away from his internal struggles.
Internal rate of return for instance focuses attention on short term costs and benefits and discounts medium-term costs and benefits (like staying in business) so that they appear almost irrelevant.
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In Healy's opinion, electronic gaming at a young age can lead to shorter attention spans, a lack of internal motivation, difficulty with problem solving and a lack of creativity.
Media attention mounted in January 2005 when an internal family feud went public.
The Vatileaks episode offered a glimpse into some of the disfunctionality, normally due to petty squabbles among internal factions within middle management, but also drew attention to the traditional feudal structure of governance within and among the offices, and how the current structures and attitudes impede the distribution of information to facilitate efficient governance, thereby hampering the Church's mission to evangelise.
While Mr Assad's attention focused ever more narrowly on the peace process, internal policy began to drift.
The main opposition has also suffered from internal divisions since it lost power, and its organizational structure could use some attention.
The Union's most attention-catching projects in the last decade have been the creation of an internal market, a single currency and an independent European central bank.
If you were to publish a manifesto for an internal group within your organization, what compelling signatories might be unexpected enough to summon the attention you desire?
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