All this is a distraction from the task of making the south of Kazakhstan more secure.

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Indeed Mr Mendonca de Barros's swift departure was welcomed by markets as the removal of a distraction from the legislative task at hand.

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The Journal talked to Gloria Mark, a professor at the University of California, Irvine, who says it can take 23 minutes for a worker to get back to the task at hand after a distraction.

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