They were preoccupied with things like supply and demand and perfect competition and equilibrium.
In addition, Asus was preoccupied with its joint venture with navigation software provider Garmin.
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Lorelei shooed them away, and Davis, preoccupied with his emotional earthquake, mercifully didn't see them.
Then again, it could be that Redmond is more preoccupied with Android nowadays.
Since then, the Hotel Detective has been a bit preoccupied with thoughts of butler management.
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As politicians become increasingly preoccupied with the elections, new battle lines are being drawn.
Most of the punditocracy has been preoccupied with how technology enables new energy alternatives to oil.
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Psychotherapeutic sessions have always been preoccupied with ambiguous ideas like smothering, weaning, isolation, and independence.
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Preoccupied with Iraq, it has put Afghanistan on a back burner in the past year.
He shares the concern that too many students are too preoccupied with getting rich.
But, in a world preoccupied with the war in Kosovo, will anyone be listening?
He, and the book, are preoccupied with the possibility of time-travel that the imagination offers.
Corporations are too preoccupied with making the quarterly numbers to build their futures.
Venture capitalists, burned by previous biotech investments and preoccupied with younameit.com, couldn't get a handle on Ambryx.
They became preoccupied with analogue-world mergers, putting together huge companies with a finger in every entertainment pie.
His post-war films were increasingly preoccupied with such American folk heroes as Davy Crockett and Johnny Appleseed.
They are too preoccupied with surviving or cultivating their gardens in the company of around 25% unemployed.
The regulators are usually preoccupied with keeping banks sound and warning them not to lend too loosely.
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Meanwhile, with boards preoccupied with risk, many CEOs lack the depth and breadth of advice they formerly received.
In fact, the market place seemed preoccupied with the FaceBook initial public offering that appears to have flopped.
Corporate boards will be preoccupied with risk management or, as it will be fashionable to say, early warning.
Individual behavior typically is not monitored closely, as organizations are more preoccupied with establishing and reinforcing cultural values.
So many young designers who show in New York are too safe, too preoccupied with taste and appropriateness.
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One was that they would always be too preoccupied with national interest to pursue a true European course.
But this year, even the fans seem too preoccupied with their own teams' problems to worry about bragging rights.
Is preoccupied with fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty or ideal love.
Pension funds and insurance companies, which in theory have long-term investment horizons, are preoccupied with short-term solvency and accounting.
But most high-tech folk still seem slightly more preoccupied with bits and bytes.
Mr Jospin, preoccupied with the economy, is saying no more for the moment.
Meanwhile, disillusioned Ukrainians fear that the new government will be as preoccupied with nest-feathering and back-stabbing as the old one.
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