In light of this heightened focus, alternative investment funds and their managers have had to adapt to the new world around them.

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He has a heightened focus, a sense that everything is more important than before, that this is his time and he has to make the most of it.

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Both have heightened the focus on what these outfits do and how they are taxed.

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Then, with the help of a spiritually heightened awareness, he was able to focus on those particular facts that would help him to see, in a metaphorical sense, the future.

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