The world number 15, who is in the process of obtaining his pilot's licence, said he had needed to keep his focus despite his enormous lead.

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W. Bush administrations and who surprised both ends of the political spectrum by setting aside his conservative personal views on issues such as homosexuality and abortion to keep his focus sharply medical, died Monday at his home in Hanover, N.

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That should be enough to keep him busy, but he says his new focus is CTH, a private cable-TV operator he bought with the Vacharaphol family (No. 14), owners of the Thai Rath newspaper, for an undisclosed sum.

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Mitt Romney wants to keep the focus on the economy, which is the key to his election chances.

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Even as General McChrystal is on his way here, I want everybody to keep in mind what our central focus is, and that is success in making sure that al Qaeda and its affiliates cannot attack the United States and its allies.

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Rather than go public or cash out his fortune, he says he will donate his shares to a new non-profit educational trust, which will keep the firm's focus on long-term research.

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