At that point, attention focused on the world's only point of contact with the cardinals: A slim smokestack protruding from the top of the Sistine Chapel.
That is a point that many economists focused on development matters agree with.
In the 1980s, they like to point out, Mr Gore focused on global warming: he even predicted, amid much derision at the time, the demise of the internal combustion engine.
Former White House cybersecurity advisor, Richard Clarke, has argued that to this point the United States has focused on creating offensive military cyber capabilities while largely ignoring the cybersecurity of civilian networks, including critical infrastructure.
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If a Senate Banking Committee on the matter Thursday was any indication, the failure of America's automakers poses such a danger to the economy that lawmakers seem less focused at this point on whether they'll give the automakers a bailout, and more so on how they'll do it.
We'll say this too: the technology works even if you normally have a little trouble keeping your eyes focused on a given point.
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"At this point, we're primarily focused on the safety and security of our employees, " said Mary Lou Ambrus, VP for external communications and infrastructure at Lucent Technologies in Murray Hill, N.
And as the bloggers at Naked Capitalism point out, the Basel committee focused on setting capital levels but did not address liquidity standards or accounting, two other crucial issues facing the banking industry.
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And by the way, like eating, stress can feel good- it helps us get things done and stay focused, up to a point.
Businesses with broader network concerns can look to platforms from SMB-focused companies such as Check Point Software, Trend Micro and Imperva, which offers a free, downloadable tool that scans databases for security vulnerabilities.
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The company has a suite of software-related security solutions, including end-point and networking products and services that are focused on helping to ensure Internet-connected devices and networks are protected from malicious content, phony requests and unsecured transactions and communications.
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These really are the keys to writing blog posts, op-ed pieces and columns, and even testimonies to Congress: to speak fearlessly from the heart, get to the point immediately, keep the message simple and focused, and use the fewest words you can.
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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.
At this point all the snazzy new websites and re-focused marketing efforts in the world aren't going to get Google, Microsoft, and the other members of the White Spaces Coalition anywhere if they don't actually demonstrate the broadband-in-between-TV-signals tech in action -- and it looks like that's proving to be harder than expected.
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Only one panelist came prepared for the correct discussion: professor Larry White focused on what should have been the starting point of discussions three years ago: abolishing the NRSRO designation altogether.
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Before you can align people you need to point them in the right direction, that is, all focused on the same goals.
The Ohio native does speak Russian, having focused most of his military service (from West Point graduation in 1973 until 1993) on the Soviet Union.
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But pressure has focused on individual plants, such as the Indian Point plant near New York City and the Diablo and San Onofre plants in coastal California.
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Not only did the agency confirm that conflicts of interest involving pension consultants are pervasive, involving trillions in assets under advisement, and that these conflicts result in billions in damages, but the report went on to point out that neither the SEC, DOL nor PBGC is focused upon pursuing these conflicts that detrimentally impact pension performance.
Since then, Mr Sharp has focused on local politics and continues to serve on Castle Point Borough Council.
If retailers like Target operated without regard to interoperability and focused on one enabling technology, they would only have implemented point of sale systems that were proprietary to each individual store.
It has even reached the point in New York where the debates on sports talk radio programs have focused on whether or not Derek Jeter should hit leadoff and when will Eduardo Nunez become the everyday shortstop.
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Most of the attention was focused on Michigan, where the results could prove to be a turning point in the race.
"From that point on, we decided our product development and engineering teams needed to be completely focused on what we do best and that's building high-performance loudspeakers, " he noted.
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Red Mountain is a case in point: When it opened in 1998, its primary guests were weight-loss-focused.
So just to pick up on one point of perhaps disagreement, I would say that the thing that we need to be focused on, and I hope we will spend some serious time talking about it tonight is, what are the dynamics at work in this world?
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I'd prefer that God be focused on helping people truly in need of assistance with bigger challenges than covering the point spread.
This request focused my thoughts, or the lack of 'em, to such a fine point, I gave my 14-inch Echo an edge it never had.
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