Without sustained attention to gun control, Americans are not likely to view the issue as particularly salient.

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Our struggling economy requires urgent and immediate action, and then sustained attention.

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Typically, the answer to such a reasonable question is a lengthy list of benefits such as sustained attention span, improved multitasking ability, strengthened immune system, increased emotional intelligence, and improved listening skills.

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Our spending tons of time on the Internet and revealing lots about ourselves is not a particularly new phenomenon, but it seems to have finally caught the sustained attention of lawmakers and federal regulators in Washington, D.

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The United Nations has repeatedly called for more serious and sustained international attention to Syria and a diplomatic end to the fighting.

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Of these four conflicts, only Darfur has generated sustained media and public attention.

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Which is why sustained research and public attention to the threat is necessary.

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They may have a classroom assistant to help, but it means those pupils with the greatest need do not necessarily get the necessary attention in a sustained way from the same person.

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This is a follow up to the committee's report in 2011, with particular attention to people considered harder to help into sustained employment.

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The researchers found that ads retained attention better if they delivered several snippets of joy in succession than if they delivered a sustained period of joy.

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