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All of the discussion focused on the region that stretches from Libya to Iran.
First, the Peruvian government focused on creating rights for the poor people whom the guerrillas controlled, and it codified those rights in its 1991 agreements with the United States and the United Nations.
Fiscal and monetary policies had focused on boosting industrial growth, without regard to macroeconomic balance, resulting in chronically excessive demand and widespread shortages.
Second, the reform strategies focused squarely on the essential: the liberalization of prices to reflect scarcity and facilitate the allocation of resources; stabilization of finances to end shortages and inflation; and privatization of state-owned companies and assets in order to improve corporate governance and performance.
So, rather than worrying about Trump’s personal predilections or trying to predict the unpredictable, China’s leaders are remaining focused on what is really important: the need for a cooperative bilateral relationship.
The humanitarian challenge has been less burdensome than anticipated, thanks to advance planning by the US and the world community and to the rapid, focused, and discriminate way in which coalition forces fought the war.
Western diplomacy in recent years has focused on Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad as the key to resolving the crisis.
A carefully focused export strategy is crucial.
Thus, managements should not dismiss governance reforms that are potentially valuable, but that investors are not yet focused on, and that markets do not yet price.
By contrast, today’s official Russian ideology seems to be focused squarely on the past.
Clinton, by contrast, offered words of support – in English and Spanish – to the victims, and focused on the community and on the need for gun control.
She would presumably seek to advance the legacy established by President Barack Obama, whose trips to Vietnam, Cuba, and Japan this year focused on moving on from a very difficult past to a new, more hopeful future.
The government, indeed, prefers to offer only hollow initiatives focused narrowly on the economy.
Talks among state officials, the Obama administration, and the banks are currently focused on reported abuses in servicing mortgages, foreclosing on homes, and evicting their residents.
In the last few weeks, attention has focused on whether Rumsfeld himself should resign or be fired.
Europe is self-absorbed, focused on creating whatever kind of entity it ends up deciding to be.
While observers and commentators focused on the economy’s slow overall growth, behind the scenes, largely unnoticed, important changes were taking place.
Early contributions to the economics of gender focused on the division of labor within households.
Focused on winning the next election, politicians often implement policies that will bring short-term rewards, even at the cost of long-term growth or stability.
The GGE report of July 2015 focused on restraining attacks on certain civilian targets, rather than proscribing particular code.
The bottom line is that with the new Commission members focused on their domestic political agendas, Durao Barroso's team will do less effectively what the Commission used to do well.
This was a generalized phenomenon, not focused on particular countries, because it was still assumed at the time that all eurozone governments would be able to bail out their own banks.
Little of the extensive coverage of her death has focused on what Britain was like in those years.
With politicians focused on the median voter, and a groupthink-generating media, the eurozone muddles through, just barely surviving.
For Palestinians, the return to talks, albeit indirect, is focused on one strategic issue: borders.
Stubbornly refusing to talk face to face while settlement activities are not completely frozen has focused attention on what many believe is the crux of Israel’s colonial occupation regime.
The core agenda is to stitch together a traditional free-trade agreement focused on industrial goods, agriculture, and textiles.
At the same time, macroeconomic policies have focused on achieving and maintaining low-single-digit inflation, rather than full employment, while limited social protection has heightened economic insecurity and vulnerability.
Over most of the last 40 years, China focused on rapid land-based development, driven by local initiatives aimed at attracting infrastructure investment, human resources, and tax revenues.
In the 1990s, Singapore’s policymakers, concerned that their approach to education might be somewhat regimented and overly focused on STEM, began to provide avenues for excellence in the humanities, arts, and sport.
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