If the Obama administration wants to promote economic growth and employment, it should focus on making the U.S. a better place to do business.

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Repeatedly, with focus, while refining your story and making it a better story.

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Furthermore, the audience for consumer robotics has grown considerably, leading the team to focus on simplifying the experience for a younger user while making it more flexible and powerful for hobbyists and other enthusiasts.

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He said that reflects a decision to focus on growing leaner and making better use of what it already has to boost profitability, not just sales.

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Most of them were mid-level employees who had to report to beleaguered managers whose focus was not a change in business strategy but rather in making it through each business quarter unscathed by failure to meet expectations.

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Rather than focus on making goal-setting a dynamic, business-centric process, it became an HR compliance program.

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You also have to focus on taking a negative, a failure, and turning it around, making it into a positive.

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And at home, if we can focus on making ourselves more energy efficient, because we are a very inefficient country when it comes to the use of energy, just like all of the industrialized countries.

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Psychological studies have suggested that men tend to focus on their senses during pain, while women have a far more emotional response, making it harder for them to cope.

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