It also is an academic one, and as such, tends to preoccupy academics like Prof.

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That is the debate that is likely to preoccupy analysts in the coming days.

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Te'o had plenty to preoccupy himself that November weekend in Palo Alto, Calif.

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These are the issues that preoccupy the President, and they are certainly the issues that will be debated in this election.

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One need not look too hard to discern the sorts of threats that could well preoccupy official Washington in the months ahead.

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It is these seemingly mundane issues, he argues, that are the stuff of daily life rather than the political dramas that preoccupy the media.

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The other question and one that will preoccupy China in a year when power shifts to the next generation of leaders is how the country is run.

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The author, a geophysicist with a flair for writing and a passion for adventure, weaves her first-hand accounts of these islands into the scientific themes that preoccupy her.

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Now he doesn't let things like that preoccupy him.

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U.S. equity prospects are upbeat, supported by the perception that Fed policy will remain loose, and while risks from Europe preoccupy investors, most believe they will not lead to a global financial event.

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With Europe's populations weary of the constitutional navel-gazing and foreign policy grandstanding which seems to preoccupy their leaders so often, the Barcelona meeting is a chance to demonstrate their concern with bread-and-butter issues like jobs.

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Mahathir is deeply worried that obsessive religious practices, and adherence to rituals at any cost, will so preoccupy his fellow Malay Muslims that the nation's bid to achieve industrialized status within the next 20 years will fail.

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These issues preoccupy scientists and governments today.

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Recovery has been much slower and much more uneven than most forecasts had suggested at the beginning of this year, and opinion polls during the election showed that economic worries at home preoccupy Americans more than the prospect of war with Iraq.

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They seem to preoccupy investors.

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