The Americans will still hunt the Taliban and al-Qaeda, while the British, the largest part of the new southern force, will focus on helping Afghan forces with security and long-term development.

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Different regions set different priorities: Eastern and southern Africa countries choose to focus on early childhood care and education, and central and west African countries focus on improving the unfinished business of Universal Primary Education.

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Eventually, the roads narrow, and the grimier factories of the southern Zhejiang industrial heartland come into focus.

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Not surprisingly, rental companies typically focus their luxury offerings in high-end markets like Southern California and South Florida.

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How that downfall came about would have made an engaging story in itself, but Allen passes it by, preferring to focus on the sweet, tractable, and altogether fantastical Southern teen-ager (Evan Rachel Wood) whom Boris finds sheltering on his doorstep, takes reluctant pity on, and weds.

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His main focus will be the institute he is planning to build at Southern Methodist University in Texas, as well as his library and archives.

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With more focus on clean energy, companies with coal operations, such as Southern Company, will have to retire those plants because they will eventually be too expensive to maintain, notes Morgan Stanley analyst Greg Gordon.

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On the southern coast, especially in Ecuador's largest city, Guayaquil, close to Peru and a focus of opposition to Mr Mahuad, who is from the highlands, nationalist feelings run high.

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Until Mr Gephardt bowed out, the main focus of the political circus after New Hampshire was supposed to be South Carolina, the first southern primary, or Arizona, the first big western one.

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