"Being a first-time father kept me so preoccupied for a few years that I didn't really bother thinking about the downstream effects of not keeping in touch with anyone, " Spenser says.
Lately, though, he has been preoccupied with a different kind of battle: a fight with his mortgage companies to save his family's home from foreclosure.
As concerns about deflation retreat for the moment, investors are now likely to be more preoccupied with a potential squeeze on companies' operating margins, based on the economic data reported by the U.S. Commerce Department over the past two days.
Whether such leverage is sufficient to persuade the Obama administration, preoccupied with a range of competing domestic and international challenges, to depart from a policy of "strategic patience" is still unclear, even allowing for the appointment of a new secretary of state - John Kerry - who reportedly favours a more engagement-centred approach to North Korea.
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Before his recent show, as he hoisted a cup for a photo-op toast with the band and Cowboys players hung out, the singer looked like a preoccupied party host who had left something cooking in the kitchen.
And these people wouldn't necessarily be in favour of a Republican Party that's preoccupied with making the world a better and more secure place for those who are already very wealthy.
Since then, the Hotel Detective has been a bit preoccupied with thoughts of butler management.
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But, in a world preoccupied with the war in Kosovo, will anyone be listening?
One is the challenge of getting more coverage from a press preoccupied by the two main parties.
Believe me, I'll take questions. (Laughter.) I just wanted to note -- I meant to yesterday, and I admit I was a little preoccupied -- I meant to note yesterday that it was the 25th anniversary, I believe, for Peter Maer -- is he in the house?
The widow of a detective who had worked in a county sheriff's office wants to know why her husband had seemed so anxiously preoccupied shortly before he died of a heart attack.
You can be sure that President Obama would welcome an America in which the Republican Party is preoccupied with remaking itself into a watered-down version of the Democrats.
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It is suggested that the UN is unable to achieve this as it would be preoccupied with ensuring everyone has a say and therefore that nothing actually gets done.
One was that they would always be too preoccupied with national interest to pursue a true European course.
Faced with a worsening fiscal crisis and a Pentagon management team preoccupied by the fight ashore, the Navy had to come up with something radically different to arrest the decline in warship numbers.
More recently, the country has been ruled by the Bharatiya Janata Party, which until only a few years ago was preoccupied with swadeshi, or self-sufficiency.
This is a timely reminder that however preoccupied this country is right now with itself, it has become and will remain intimately involved in the Middle East and beyond.
Preoccupied with the faux pas of serving a heavy French meal on a hot summer eve, I had failed to take into account the more basic problem of cooking in Manhattan this time of year.
It is a paradox that, in spite of dramatic increases in life expectancy and improvements in health in the developed world over recent decades, as a society we are obsessively preoccupied with the specter of hazards lurking in our environment and consumer products.
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With Liverpool toiling to a 0-0 draw against Fulham earlier in the day and Tottenham preoccupied with their FA Cup semi-final against Portsmouth, the home side knew a win would open up a potentially decisive gap on their rivals for the final Champions League place, with some difficult fixtures lying in wait.
Preoccupied with preserving their Premier League status, a number of them have rested their regulars for FA Cup games and fielded clearly understrength sides.
Wallace was preoccupied with the manipulative desire-mill of a media-saturated society.
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Our correspondent says that he is set to take over the reins of power at a time when most Pakistanis are preoccupied by the challenges of daily life amid lengthy power blackouts.
But perhaps the granddaddy of all real estate blogs, and certainly one of the best-known, is Curbed, which focuses on real estate in New York, a city whose inhabitants are perennially preoccupied with housing.
Preoccupied with Iraq, it has put Afghanistan on a back burner in the past year.
Standing on the Bowery on a cold December night, Gioni is preoccupied.
For a few days, Rousselot was even preoccupied by the thought that he had lost his best reader, the reader for whom he had really been writing, the only one who was truly capable of responding to his work.
Venture capitalists, burned by previous biotech investments and preoccupied with younameit.com, couldn't get a handle on Ambryx.
With the launch of euro notes and coins only weeks away, the prospect of the war dragging on for months, and crucial meetings ahead to finalize EU and Nato reforms, it's not a good time for Mr Berlusconi to become preoccupied with his personal ratings.
And for all that the scene is preoccupied with alienation and misery, its champions claim it offers a comradeship of sorts.
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