That is not something to fixate on but it is a benchmark worth occasional reference.

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Financial headlines have a tendency to fixate on one shiny object after another.

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One telling sign a CEO is feeling overwhelmed, he says, is when the CEO begins to "micromanage" and fixate on small details.

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From the 2009 release of Star Trek, his focus has seemed to fixate on comedic asides of the crew, especially with the character of Bones.

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They fixate on it and forget the autopilot has tripped.

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They fixate on the inanimate stuff of capital and overlook the human imagination, patience and effort to anticipate consumer desires and bring together the many factors of production to eventually satisfy them.

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As a relatively small number of stocks climb, the reporters and analysts tend to fixate on them to the exclusion of other, less dramatic occurrences that could be telling us something important about a coming crash.

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And she began to fixate on what she considered the cautionary tale of Douglas Prasher, a molecular biologist whose research funding dried up in 1992, when his tenure prospects at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution seemed in doubt.

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Entrepreneurs often fixate on one.

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Wilson has seen patients who fixate on visualizing themselves in the plane and who go so far as to seek out information such as how long the plane fell through the sky so they can intensify the reality of the experience in their minds.

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