Still, Mr. Ambrose adds that spending too much time focusing on the competition can be distracting.
He also suggested Ofsted had spent too much time focusing on failing schools.
People may have a hard time focusing on work or other everyday activities.
We're spending a lot more time focusing on that, particularly on media content.
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Why spend so much time focusing on the economists who got it wrong while ignoring those who got it right?
Most people, though, are having a hard time focusing on the issue.
After spending time focusing on internal issues, and with the new PPS organization largely in place, a period of stability will enable HP to rebuild momentum.
She spent time focusing on how she could conquer fears like swimming with sharks, surviving stand up comedy, and reflecting on her relationship with her boyfriend.
And we can add more value when we spend the majority of our time focusing on the work that the most senior leaders in the organization consider valuable.
By reducing its share count, Goldman may be smoothing a new path towards earnings records, this time focusing on earnings per share over other metrics like return on equity, which remain stubbornly low.
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But today -- when stress might feel life-threatening but usually isn't -- this only means that you have a harder time focusing on work when your mind is on your visiting in-laws or a speech you have to give.
Mr. SNOW: It's better to spend some time focusing on big issues so that people do get a sense of your engagement with them, and there will be opportunities to pick up other topics in much greater detail later on.
Instead of spending the coming months in a lot of phony political debates, focusing on the next election, I hope that we spend some time focusing on middle-class Americans and those who are struggling to get into the middle class.
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We found much too often that clients and their advisors spend an awful lot of time focusing on the equity portion of the portfolio, and doing a really good job in allocating to different cap sizes, or internationally, or growth vs. value.
The new model for Timberlake and others: spend the bulk of your time focusing on the myriad business and artistic ventures available to savvy musicians, then make one truly terrific album once every five years or so and tour it like a madman.
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The European Commission began two new antitrust investigations into Microsoft in response to complaints from its rivals, this time focusing on the compatibility of its Office package with other companies' software and the bundling of its Internet Explorer web browser with Windows.
Being able to spend some time focusing on those issues that we all believe are important and some of those common solutions I think would do all of us well, and I know it would do the American people well to see that as well.
We tend in this town to spend most of our time focusing on what we don't agree on, and I think, as I said earlier, the model of a lame duck session where people can have a civil conversation sitting at the same table making progress on issues is I think what the American people are looking for.
The LUMIX GH2 also features faster AF, reducing detection time for focusing to approximately 0.1 second3 by doubling the drive speed from 60 frames per second to 120 frames per second.
So there -- but he will -- he looks forward to spending even more time now focusing on -- specifically on things we can do to grow the economy and create jobs in the near term.
That's why we think it's important to highlight companies that are embracing these policies, ones that are experimenting with things like flex time and telecommuting and focusing on performance and output rather than face time.
We have spent a lot more time and energy focusing on costs a year or two before we thought we had to.
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The how-to-get-there-from-here stuff will have to be dealt with, in time, but focusing on it too early makes it too hard to truly Think Big.
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There are now 70, 000 fewer people going to college than two years ago, although the government has insisted that it has "maintained college numbers at the full time equivalent of 116, 000" through focusing on full-time students and cutting thousands of part-time places.
It can distract us from focusing our time, our efforts, and our politics on the challenges of the future.
We found a very good balance where we could keep users in the loop while still focusing our time on the software creation.
This time they're focusing on the chopping and changing over the precise aircraft which will fly from the new carriers on the distant day when they become operational.
And the President has been focusing his time talking about the contrast, the difference he has with Mitt Romney on issues like the wind tax credit, on Medicare, on middle-class tax cuts.
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It's been a full-time -- and more than full-time -- job focusing on the day-to-day recovery (and) relief, making decisions about how we recover as many people as possible, making decisions about how to readjust the budget and then every day going to funerals and wakes, in some cases for personal friends.
Focusing on face time can disadvantage women, especially mothers, in other ways.
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