The likely fate of the Amazon under climate change came under focus early last year when, as one of a series of attacks on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the Sunday Times newspaper accused the panel of having included an unsubstantiated claim that up to 40% of the forest could be affected by climate change in future.
CEOs (in my experience) tend to over-focus on the financial, due diligence and purely logistical aspects of big transitions like this, and under-focus on the people involved, and how to help them through the transition with the least amount of disruption and disaffection possible.
Not surprisingly, both Santorum and Romney also offered NRA members strong support for the rights of gun owners, now under extra focus as the Trayvon Martin shooting resonates through the country.
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Cables wrapped in orange high-voltage warning sleeves are located under the hood of the Focus EV.
Project FOCUS (Families OverComing Under Stress) is a program of the Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BUMED).
Right now the Fed feels inflation is under control, so it can focus on the employment mandate, analysts said.
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Mitsubishi's move is part of a phase of narrowing corporate focus that has been under way for a while.
Focus on Joey sitting under the shade of an umbrella, and Kimmy romping in the bright sun will be nearly washed out.
Unicef and Action Contre la Faim weigh and measure children under the age of fvie and focus group discussions are being held with Sheikhs (leaders of a tribe in a certain village) from the villages that are affected by the conflict.
Chief executive Michael Clarke said he intended to "draw a line under the performance of 2011" and focus on the refinancing package agreed with banks.
This carried the case against Hussein beyond the matter of liberating Kuwait to focus on the elimination, under international inspection, of his weapons of mass destruction.
Just imagine the intense focus on a slide presentation under such circumstances (you can read the legal filings in the latest lawsuit here and here).
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Co-founder and CEO of Apple, Steve Jobs, was an incorrigible troublemaker until his 4th grade teacher took him under her wing and convinced him to focus on math instead of mischief.
Or have Human Resources use their own code or computer codes to glean certain buzz words, dates, phrases that enable them to focus on resumes of those under 40 for any job opening they may have.
It shows clearly that the focus of the tremor was right under the city's south-eastern suburbs.
In these times of uncertain demand, we focus on tightly managing the variables under our control such as inventories and expenses.
Under the agreement, the first debate will focus on foreign policy and homeland security, while the final one will deal with economic and domestic policy.
Although businesspeople clearly share the same freedom of speech prerogatives afforded anyone not living under a totalitarian regime, I recommend they focus on improving their return to their stakeholders.
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The only difference under quantitative easing is that the purchases probably focus on longer-term Treasury securities rather than short-term Treasury securities hoping to push longer-term yields down a bit as well as get credit and money flowing again.
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At Dell World last week, Michael Dell hosted a variety of speakers, most of whom pointed to a vision of a new CIO, one who abandons the under-the-hood, component level focus in favor of vastly increased attention on business processes and crafting and configuring applications to support them.
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Companies, under increasing pressure to protect their profits, will focus more attention on white-collar productivity.
When individuals focus on making their own lives superlative under capitalism, the result is success, prosperity, and progress.
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But these jottings have a second purpose: They're diary entries of sorts, bringing into sharp focus travel memories that might otherwise fade under the weight of years.
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Under Mr. Page, Google is expected to focus on its graphical online-ad initiatives, video site YouTube and its Android mobile device software, people familiar with the matter said.
The sharpened focus of the Securities and Exchange Commission under Chairman Mary L. Schapiro may well be the single most important shift in the corporate governance landscape this year.
It cited Penn State's "excessive focus on athletics" and showed how under Paterno, a football-mad university created its own insular, reality distortion field, one in which to "avoid the consequences of bad publicity, " facts were brushed away and concealed.
His focus: gross margins are likely to come under pressure due to excess supply.
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But while a focus on reading tends to highlight the relative under-performance of boys, they do not lag behind in every respect.
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