German engineers, who focus squarely on the driving experience, couldn't understand the Americans' preoccupation with beverages.
Her mother's preoccupation with her own appearance set an example that nagged Lee through adulthood.
In fact, the appointments seemed as much to reflect his own preoccupation with livelihood issues over politics.
The organizations start losing money and hence go out of business, until a preoccupation with efficiency re-emerges.
True, a preoccupation with the relative merits of various types of decorative sticky tape is not for everyone.
Indeed, from the heady heights of Davos, this trade round's preoccupation with farming the oldest of old-economy businesses looks absurd.
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Dale Bathum developed a preoccupation with footwear as a kid, when his wide feet hurt in running shoes.
His preoccupation with Unefon financing allowed rival Televisa to come back with a string of successful nighttime shows.
His preoccupation with financing Unefon allowed rival Televisa to come back with a string of successful nighttime shows.
This is a byproduct of polarization, the cultlike expulsion of any dissenting voices and preoccupation with ideological purity.
Corporate America's newfound preoccupation with energy costs has made efficiency a hot business.
Security measures in Kashgar hardly suggest a preoccupation with terrorism, but rather an attempt to keep the population cowed.
This led to a discussion of today's operatic preoccupation with singers' physical allure.
But will cultivating a healthy preoccupation with data pay dividends for your business?
Dr Williams was also wasted because of the Church's preoccupation with its divisions.
Such activities have largely been ignored in the Western preoccupation with the Soviet Union's more benign overt diplomatic campaigns.
Libertarians dislike them for their preoccupation with using the state to impose virtue.
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Leaders and officials at every level will begin to relax after months if not years of preoccupation with this event.
But Montgomerie accepts that the modern preoccupation with sports analytics means that there are precious few eccentrics in today's game.
Aziz said that his country's neighbors don't share the U.S. preoccupation with whether Iraq has amassed weapons of mass destruction.
Bank supervisors, because of their preoccupation with systemic risk, have tended to be quite tolerant of anti-competitive behaviour by banks.
To be sure, there are significant lessons for business here, underscored by our current public preoccupation with transparency and accountability.
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For fans, Al Thani's apparent preoccupation with conforming to UEFA's new laws could not have come at a worse time.
The reasons for this are not clear but a contributing factor has been the preoccupation with brick and mortar expansion.
The preoccupation with technologies directed at creating alternatives to hydrocarbons misses how technology also unleashes alternative sources of hydrocarbons themselves.
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After long years of fruitless preoccupation with Israeli-Palestinian peace, the president erupted with his pent-up frustration straight to the Israeli public...
Our preoccupation with short-term, self-interest is causing us to be out of balance in our giving and receiving with each other.
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Renault boss Flavio Briatore once bemoaned the sport's preoccupation with technological minutiae.
The cutout technique itself builds upon the artist's careerlong preoccupation with color.
The wiser ones admit that America's preoccupation with Iraq helped Mr Arafat.
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