Meanwhile, Mr Bush's people are making concerted efforts to lure Indian-Americans, a group that has usually voted Democratic in the past.

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But we are making concerted efforts to try and increase our minority representation, as well as our female representation, as well as gay officers that - we've got a recruiting drive on for gay officers also, because, once again, we reflect a very large gay population in the city.

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As a segue from there, Eun noted that Samsung is making concerted efforts to make its products work together with devices and services outside of Samsung -- in other words, it's unrealistic to assume that each consumer owns a Galaxy Note 10.1, a Galaxy S III and a Samsung HDTV.

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