Mr Mathews said that Severn Trent would focus on the "single minded pursuit of continuous improvement".
While single minded, it is important to remember that his focus is anything but narrow.
The technology corridor of the West Coast has long resonated with stories of the single minded focus on the user.
These are further reasons why both the single-minded pursuit of Keynesian solutions by progressives and the single-minded pursuit of budget cutting by Republicans require urgent rethinking.
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"He's focused, determined and single minded ... he's never set out to break records, " said his trainer Harmander Singh, who has been coaching him for 13 years.
The 1, 500 vendors of security products and thousands of security service providers have had a single minded focus on defending against bad actors ever since the invention of networked computers.
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"Voters have been single minded across the eurozone in terms of expressing their dissatisfaction at how the crisis has been run by the government in charge, whatever their political hue, " he said.
Then he was an aggressive perfectionist whose single-minded self-belief contributed to his Anfield downfall.
Five years on, Blechacz still has that single-minded pursuit of clarity and brilliance at the keyboard.
After he made a decision, he would be very single-minded until it got done.
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He is a very single-minded guy, and that will be vitally important in the days ahead.
Eagles fans, single-minded and not easily satisfied, would no doubt prefer a different trophy next year.
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Perhaps because he has ignored some important social issues in his single-minded pursuit of euro membership.
Their characters' stoic acceptance of those burdens and their single-minded drive have become the Dardennes' trademarks.
Sadly for Sri Lanka, only the army is single-minded about what to do with the Tigers.
Schools want more than just "quant jocks" or single-minded financial experts, said Scott Shrum, director of M.
Capello's single-minded approach reminds Lampard of former Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho, now in charge at Inter Milan.
They grieved for a time when leadership was defined by a single-minded, straightforward sense of purpose and direction.
"This generation is very focused and they will achieve their goals with single-minded purpose, " says a leading psychoanalyst.
But sceptics note that rich, single-minded Finland is over budget and behind schedule with its new nuclear-power plant.
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But that needs single-minded focus by the government on dealing with the country's economic bottlenecks and social needs.
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Frank is to be commended and honored for his single-minded focus and total dedication to this nation's security.
"You have to be single-minded, strong and knowledgeable about football and I think Tony fits those requirements, " he said.
But sometimes the single-minded pursuit of entrepreneurial dreams requires taking down another entrepreneur.
He is one of the most ruthless, single-minded and fiercely-driven personalities in football.
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Additionally, a single-minded focus on deficits and debt makes tax increases more likely.
If it all seems a bit single-minded at times, that's not a failing.
But a single-minded focus on repeal could backfire as a Republican governing strategy.
His rugged, single-minded approach (forehand crosscourt, forehand crosscourt 1, 000 times) snuffs out Federer's style and versatility, rendering them frustratingly useless.
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The single-minded pursuit of shareholder value, measured over the short term, has been enormously destructive for strategy and value creation.
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