It has also focused attention on the country's blasphemy laws.
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TWO recent events have focused attention on airlines' relation with religion.
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On the other hand, the web has focused attention on the problem.
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"Amnesty's reports have focused attention on child labor," a third source said.
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That has focused attention on where the bank might expand its operations.
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"Amnesty's reports have focused attention on child labour," a third source said.
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The murder of Jamal Khashoggi has focused attention on Saudi Arabia's human rights abuses.
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The Court focused attention on that evidence and assessed the credibility of the witnesses.
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Mr Rosselló's departure has focused attention on one of Puerto Rico's most significant problems.
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That has focused attention on the plight of declining industrial areas in the rich world.
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The election has also focused attention on a hunger strike by HDP lawmaker Leyla Guven.
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The attacks in Belgium, in particular, have focused attention on airlines and other travel-related stocks.
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The tragedy has focused attention on the importance of safety for those using ride sharing apps.
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President Donald Trump's impeachment has focused attention on the effect of foreign interference on US elections.
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The President, perhaps unintentionally, has focused attention on a new and serious problem with the Mueller probe.
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Both not only repudiated flawed notions of "electability" but also focused attention on their campaigns' core messages.
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His murder has sparked worldwide outrage and focused attention on the Trump administration's cozy relationship with the Saudis.
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Efforts to raise the minimum wage, aided by #MeToo, have focused attention on the perceived inequities of tipping.
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Government mismanagement has focused attention on the continued illegal misappropriation of state funds by members of the government.
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In recent years, advocacy groups have focused attention on the favors state governments give to select corporate interests.
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The situation is having an impact on firms close to Woodford and has focused attention on the regulator.
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Most productively, the Black Lives Matter movement has focused attention on the persistent ways that discrimination blocks progress.
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The initial decision to revoke Uber's license focused attention on the fast-changing dynamics of London's taxi industry.
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Instead, they focused attention on the damaging effects of the shutdown, already the second longest in American history.
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The realization that he had stayed with asylum seekers focused attention on their difficult circumstances in the territory.
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The death of a Wuhan doctor last week focused attention on earlier attempts to suppress speech and its consequences.
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The rescue of three people from a mine in West Virginia focused attention on the perils of former mines.
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The standoff in eastern Oregon has once again focused attention on the role of federal lands in the West.
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That has focused attention on the chassis, and raised questions about whether the Honda engine was blamed disproportionately last year.
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"The performance focused attention on the individual author and their ability to generate something entirely new through inquiry," Taylor says.
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Some of the national discourse since then has focused attention on whether athletes in prominent sports receive more lenient treatment.
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But the Israeli operation has focused attention on a frontier across which Israel and Hezbollah fought a war in 2006.
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The dynamic focused attention on Argentina's heavy load of dollar-denominated debt and 12-month inflation running at 25.5 percent.
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That has focused attention on the backgrounds of previous chiefs of what is known as the department's Region II office.
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The recent deaths of four American soldiers in Niger focused attention on the growing militarization of the American relationship with Africa.
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PARIS (Reuters) - The death of billionaire Liliane Bettencourt focused attention on Friday on how L'Oreal's founding family and major shareholder Nestle (NESN.
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The deal would come as the firing of missiles by North Korea in recent months has focused attention on missile defense systems.
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But they say the problematic statistics don't matter because the campaign has focused attention on a long-neglected crisis in the Philippines.
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The calamitous way the emergency was handled stirred public anger in Kemerovo and focused attention on corruption and lax fire safety standards.
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Weather concerns were more marked in Germany, where recent dryness has focused attention on low moisture reserves following severe drought last year.
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Mr. de Blasio mentioned the recent spate of driver suicides in New York — another factor that has focused attention on the industry.
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Mr. Fallon had been talked of a potential caretaker leader, while Mr. Johnson's latest misstep error has focused attention on his competence.
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The uproar has focused attention on a revolving door in which politicians sometimes go to work for Chinese companies after leaving office.
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The Black Lives Matter movement, sparked by police killings of unarmed black men since 2014, has focused attention on race and policing.
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The murders have focused attention on Canada's racist fringe, an uncomfortable topic for a country that prides itself on its tolerance and diversity.
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The incident focused attention on Western backing for the Saudi's operations in its attempt to restore the ousted government of its southern neighbour.
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It may be early days in their relationship, but Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have focused attention on the protocol behind royal marriages.
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The crackdown has focused attention on government censorship and away from the opposition's failure to release a promised statement outlining its next move.
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The cyclone that hit Mozambique on March 403th, killing perhaps 1,000 people, has further focused attention on the risks posed by rising temperatures.
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The high-drama operation has focused attention on the growing muscle of drug gangs in Argentina and raised questions over their political connections.
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The project's reversal of fortunes has angered environmentalists and focused attention on an unusual connection between a Chilean billionaire and President Trump's family.
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Trump has also focused attention on immigration issues, including a caravan of migrants from Central America headed through Mexico toward the U.S. border.
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Cash. The massive Equifax breach has again focused attention on identity theft and fraud, which cost consumers more than $16 billion last year.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's expansive Green New Deal has focused attention on the issue and sparked several proposals for federal climate strategies, including from Republicans.
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By overstepping established order and offering a convenient service consumers loved, Uber nobly focused attention on a global patchwork of regulations worthy of disruption.
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Around the world, a surge in extreme weather events, including storms, floods and droughts, has focused attention on the risks associated with global warming.
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But Mr. O'Malley is running in an election cycle in which Democratic elected officials and donors have overwhelmingly focused attention on Hillary Rodham Clinton.
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That effort, if nothing else, has focused attention on the town and its fears in a way that the locals had long felt unattainable.
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Graham accused Democrats of seeking to destroy the judge's life as they focused attention on the three sexual misconduct allegations that roiled Kavanaugh's nomination.
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Clinton focused attention on Mr. Trump's past comments that, if abortion were outlawed, there should be "some form of punishment" for the women involved.
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The terrorist group has previously called for their members to stage attacks during the holy month of Ramadan and has also focused attention on Turkey.
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The lawsuit comes as several incidents at U.S. colleges and universities, some involving athletes, have focused attention on the issue of sexual assault on campuses.
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The public has largely missed this bigger picture because the American progressive movement has focused attention on the role of Court in protecting abortion rights.
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His murder, which took place in NATO member Turkey, has sparked worldwide outrage and focused attention on the Trump administration's cozy relationship with the Saudis.
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The threat of a Donald Trump presidency has muted much of the anger, and focused attention on core issues and challenges rather than personality conflicts.
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An influx of money from both Democrats and Republicans has focused attention on the historically conservative district, and both sides expect it to be tight.
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Concerns about the current epidemic of opioid- related deaths have focused attention on physician prescribing patterns and deficiencies in the training of the clinical workforce.
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Intel's decision added to a controversy that has focused attention on the treatment of women in the games business and the power of online mobs.
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But the Oxfam revelations have focused attention on the instinct of charities to keep quiet about episodes that might undermine their image, mission and morale.
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They developed the sciences, calculated the earth's circumference, proposed a heliocentric theory of the solar system and focused attention on the workings of human beings.
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In doing so, we have focused attention on bigots and white nationalists and not held ordinary citizens accountable for beliefs that achieve the same ends.
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The bombing on Thursday also focused attention on the plight of mentally ill people in China, who are often stigmatized and struggle to get help.
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But while the hacking focused attention on one particularly stealthy, intrusive way of influencing other states, it is just one lever that the Kremlin pulls.
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The case against Azaria has divided opinion among the Israeli public, politicians and members of the military, and focused attention on the military's code of ethics.
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The government has recently been talking even tougher, as worsening relations with Russia have focused attention on the number of oligarchs who have interests in London.
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A recent fatality involving a Tesla Model S electric sedan using the company's Autopilot system has focused attention on the risks of new "autonomous driving" technology.
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With no son or obvious successor, the announcement that Mr. Karimov, 78, was gravely ill, or perhaps dead, immediately focused attention on who might succeed him.
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While much of the change worldwide has involved transgender people, the discussion has also focused attention on intersex people, those born with traits of both sexes.
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Remarks Francis made in Chile that were offensive to victims of sexual abuse focused attention on an explosive issue that has threatened to derail his papacy.
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Allegations against the producer prompted the #MeToo movement, and his trial has focused attention on the complicated issues of consent and power dynamics in the workplace.
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The discovery that plotters of November terrorist attacks in Paris had been filming the director of Belgium's nuclear research program have sharply focused attention on the issue.
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South Asia's most devastating floods in a decade killed more than 1,400 people and focused attention on poor planning and lack of preparedness for annual monsoon rains.
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He was sucked out of the jet without causing it to crash, but the incident focused attention on the threat of bombs hidden inside ordinary-looking gadgets.
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Instead, they have focused attention on a gun violence epidemic that killed nearly 40,000 Americans in 2017, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Personally I have more focused attention on what I'm doing—I'm able to plan out three to four tracks ahead of time and where I'm going musically.
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The settlement comes as several incidents at U.S. colleges and universities, some involving athletes, have focused attention on the issue of sexual assault on campuses in recent months.
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Regeni's fate has re-focused attention on broader allegations of police brutality in Egypt and created tensions between Cairo and Italy, one of Egypt's most important trading partners.
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The High Bridge report focused attention on the planned use of 55-gallon drums as packaging for the plutonium, a use not currently approved at the WIPP site.
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She focused on buffing models' faces and added just a bit of concealer, highlighter and lip balm — a "no makeup" makeup look that focused attention on the skin.
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The resulting scrutiny of the issue has focused attention on the lack of reliable and comprehensive data about how many people are killed by the police each year.
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The Volkswagen case has focused attention on the degree to which nearly all carmakers in Europe built diesel cars that flouted emissions rules in one way or another.
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During the 20-year period covered by Contesting Modernity, a significant number of Venezuelan artists became associated with "Informalism," which focused attention on improvisational methods and art's material nature.
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Since Eric Lindros stepped away from the game, other high-profile concussions, like those sustained by the Pittsburgh Penguins star Sidney Crosby, have also focused attention on player safety.
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The horrifying image of the mangled yellow school bus after it collided with a dump truck on a New Jersey highway on Thursday has focused attention on bus safety.
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" The period of time has come under scrutiny as President Donald Trump and his allies have focused attention on the use of government surveillance, referring to the story as "Spygate.
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Soros&apos comments, delivered Sunday at an economic forum in northern Italy, focused attention on the pro-Moscow agenda of Italy&aposs new euroskeptic League and 5-Star Movement government.
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Some Freedom of Information Act requests have recently focused attention on—and may lead to the public release of—a report similar to the one Mueller is mandated to complete.
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The deal, expected to close in the first half of 2018, comes as the firing of missiles by North Korea in recent months has focused attention on missile defense systems.
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The spread of the malicious software, or malware, has focused attention on several questions, including why a software patch, issued by Microsoft in March, was not installed by more users.
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The blaze also focused attention on living conditions for young Brazilian soccer players, many of whom come from underprivileged backgrounds and live in dormitories like Flamengo's across the vast country.
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The violence has focused attention on President Muhammadu Buhari, a former military ruler who vowed to restore order in Africa's most populous nation when he came to power in May 2015.
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And while some Senate Democrats have raised concerns over how it hamstrings efforts to counter these groups, their Republican counterparts have instead focused attention on the left-wing protest group antifa.
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The women's complaints have focused attention on how the university deals with such cases as it also seeks to uphold a moral code that lies at the heart of its identity.
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A good butt workout, with proper form, ample reps, and focused attention on the muscle at work, can actually change the way your brain and your butt interact, building more muscle.
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The Equifax breach, which focused on a database that contained the personal information of 143 million Americans, focused attention on the vulnerabilities of private companies that handle sensitive personal financial information.
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It also focused attention on Mr. van der Zwaan's former law firm, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, where he worked on a Ukrainian project steered by Mr. Gates and Mr. Manafort.
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"And while the Obama administration has rightfully focused attention on developments in the Middle East, for too long it has turned a blind eye to the North Korean threat," he added.
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But the harrowing events surrounding Mr. Feliciano's suicide attempt, which left him in critical condition and on a respirator, have once again focused attention on serious mismanagement at the aging complex.
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Samantha Power, the United States ambassador to the United Nations, has rightly focused attention on these war crimes, but these denunciations will make no difference to the situation on the ground.
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The differing outlook between global oil markets and the U.S. market has focused attention on the spread between Brent and U.S. crude oil futures, also known as West Texas Intermediate or WTI.
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The death of a pilot whale in June found with some 80 pieces of plastic rubbish in its stomach focused attention on what environmentalists call Thailand's "addiction" to plastic bags and packaging.
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Tensions focused attention on the performance of Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, who is seeking a second term after May 12 parliamentary elections tainted by allegations of fraud that prompted a recount.
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But Husseini, who now runs consultancy Husseini Energy, on Wednesday said Trump had focused attention on the risk posed to the Middle East energy industry by a lack of security and stability.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A group of Irish homeless people vacated a prime Dublin office building on Thursday, ending a month-long standoff that has focused attention on the country's housing crisis.
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To many in Zambia, the current power crisis has focused attention on climate change in a way that changes over years and decades, like rising temperatures and irregular rainfall patterns, had not.
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Much as Netanyahu-versus-Gantz focused attention on the election as a head-to-head contest, under Israel's chaotic and confusing parliamentary system, a panoply of small parties could tip the balance.
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Many lawmakers have focused attention on a small group jailed for campaigning for reforms to the kingdom's austere social code — including the right for women to drive, which Prince Mohammed has granted.
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She was convicted and sentenced to death in 2010, a verdict that drew worldwide condemnation and focused attention on Pakistan's blasphemy law, which critics say has been used to persecute religious minorities.
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In the wake of the #MeToo movement and Time's Up campaign, which have focused attention on the treatment of women, the list of actors who have denounced the famed director is growing.
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Devastating events such as last year's WannaCry and NotPetya attacks have focused attention on cyber risk, Dave Brosnan, chief executive of insurer CNA Hardy, which compiled the six-monthly survey, told Reuters.
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The June 2016 shooting eclipsed the Up Stairs Lounge fire as the single-biggest loss of life for the LGBT community but also re-focused attention on the New Orleans fire, Fieseler said.
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We focused attention on the grotesque level of income and wealth inequality in this country and the importance of breaking up the large banks who brought our economy to the brink of collapse.
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Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi, the president of RespectAbility, an advocacy group, said the election had focused attention on issues affecting disabled voters as never before, with Mr. Trump's behavior serving as a galvanizing force.
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The industry and lawmakers have focused attention on ensuring that rural and urban areas both have access to 2628G, but many advocates warn that the digital divide within big cities could also worsen.
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That has focused attention on whether Lula will stand down and throw his weight decisively behind another candidate, with roughly one-third of voters saying in previous polls they would back his choice.
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More than any other, the death of Mr. Magaqa, the most prominent politician assassinated so far, has focused attention on the deadly scramble within the party that helped bring democracy to South Africa.
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Her death, so close to home, and in a region known for its prosperity and safety, has focused attention on the dangers facing female journalists, especially those who work on a freelance basis.
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Inbox To the Sports Editor: Re "Yankees Charity Neglects Stadium's Neighbors," June 28: As an ongoing grant recipient of the New Yankee Stadium Community Benefits Fund, I immediately focused attention on this article.
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Joe Crowley – seen as a likely successor to House minority leader Nancy Pelosi – in the New York congressional Democratic primary has focused attention on more than the weariness among many liberals over establishment Democrats.
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Beats execs told us they're happy with the architecture of the sound enclosure and its audio performance, so they focused attention on changing everything else inside the headphones while maintaining almost the same weight.
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News that a 7-year-old girl died "of dehydration and shock" in Border Patrol custody last week has focused attention on the dangers migrants and asylum-seekers face while attempting to reach safety.
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The incident has focused attention on the aging facility and the state is investigating the impact if it were shut down to figure out how Southern California would replace a major source of energy.
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The controversy has also focused attention on the president's attitudes toward women, creating a political storm that could have wide-ranging consequences for the White House and the Republican Party in the midterm elections.
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"You don't ever want to be separating families, but at least the president focused attention on all the people crossing the border illegally," said Helen Delavan, 79, a retired school secretary in Castroville, Tex.
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The US&aposs shift to "great-power competition" with Russia and China has focused attention on the array of sophisticated weaponry those countries field, from growing submarine fleets to thickets of anti-aircraft systems.
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The most devastating floods to hit South Asia in a decade killed more than 1,400 people this year, and focused attention on poor planning for disasters, as authorities struggled to assist millions of destitute survivors.
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The crisis has focused attention on May, who as interior minister set out to create a "really hostile environment" for illegal immigrants, imposing tough new requirements in 2012 for people to prove their legal status.
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"Recent tragedies have focused attention on the fact that most people with serious mental illness do not have access to mental health treatment," NAMI executive director Michael Fitzpatrick said in an open letter in 2013.
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A video of police officers handcuffing a woman selling churros on Friday in a subway station in Brooklyn has focused attention on this subset of street sellers, who generally work without permits or permanent locations.
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Sunday's incident follows a deadly blast on March 21 at a chemical park in the city of Yancheng, also in Jiangsu province, that killed 78 people and focused attention on safety at small chemical firms.
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And he's focused attention on the generic drug space, moving to streamline approvals and publishing a list of drugs vulnerable to Shkreli-like actions: those that have lost patent protection but have no generic competition.
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The killing has sparked the kingdom's worst political crisis in a generation, strained ties with Western allies including the United States, and focused attention on Prince Mohammed's domestic crackdown on dissent and the war in Yemen.
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The Ghomeshi trial has led to heightened public scrutiny of how the Canadian legal system deals with sexual assault claims, and focused attention on rampant underreporting and low conviction rates of rape and other sexual violence.
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Panama's financial sector has been under pressure to improve transparency since the massive data leak known as the Panama Papers embarrassed several world leaders this month and focused attention on the operations of offshore financial centers.
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Today three decades of unequal economic growth, the pain that followed the financial crisis in 2008 and the disruptive potential of digital technologies have once again focused attention on the welfare of the struggling working class.
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The epidemic has sparked a debate over growing inequality in India and focused attention on a free healthcare scheme for the poor - known as "Modicare" after Prime Minister Narendra Modi - eight months after it was launched.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Violent attacks on two LGBT+ couples have focused attention on a rise in homophobic hate crime in Britain amid a heated debate over whether schools should teach children about same-sex relationships.
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They have focused attention on his personal life, including his 2014 discharge from the Navy Reserve after testing positive for cocaine, and his business career, which included a number of roles that intersected with his father's political career.
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The Elbphilharmonie's Transatlantik festival, which runs through Monday and includes presentations of blues, fado and Afro-Cuban jazz, is just one of several themed program clusters that have focused attention on musical experiences of and in the Americas.
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The scandal has cost Volkswagen tens of billions of dollars in legal settlements and fines and focused attention on the controlling families, all of whom are descendants of Ferdinand Porsche, who designed the Volkswagen Beetle for Adolf Hitler.
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NHTSA's disclosure last week of its probe into the May crash in Florida that killed a Model S driver using Autopilot has focused attention on the nascent technology that Tesla has said is still in "beta," or test, mode.
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The potentially grave consequences of Trump's decision, and the fact that the International Atomic Energy Agency, US allies and even the US government have said that Iran is in compliance with the agreement, have focused attention on Trump's motivations.
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Last year's ouster of Guatemalan President Otto Pérez Molina and the recent installation of an Organization of American States (OAS) anti-corruption mission in Honduras have focused attention on the political corruption that undermines democratic governance in Central America.
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COLUMBIA, S.C. — A former South Carolina sheriff's deputy will face no charges for tossing a student across a classroom, a prosecutor announced Friday in a case that focused attention on the consequences of bringing law enforcers into classroom confrontations.
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Now, the claim of a 19-year-old British tourist that she was raped on Koh Tao in June has again focused attention on the island's troubled history and called into question police handling of serious crimes against tourists.
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But in the last month, many of these communities have decided that they already know who the anonymous source is, claiming he is one and the same as the former NSC staffer whom Cernovich focused attention on in 2017.
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Two crashes of the new 737 Max jet focused attention on the plane's maker, Boeing — giving cover, a Times investigation found, to the poor safety record of the operator of one of the fatal flights, Indonesia's ambitious Lion Air.
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Two crashes of the new 27 Max jet focused attention on the plane's maker, Boeing — giving cover, a Times investigation found, to the poor safety record of the operator of one of the fatal flights, Indonesia's ambitious Lion Air.
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Although the Grenfell fire has focused attention on council homes, it is those forced into the private sector by a shortage of social housing who often experience some of the worst conditions—and they are growing in number (see chart).
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Maybe this poise in the midst of round-the-clock laser-focused attention on her every move has nothing at all to do with her preparations to be a royal and everything to do with the woman who raised her.
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While they quickly consulted about the risk of the attacks spreading, the disruption focused attention on how Canada would deal with an assault on a huge network of pipelines crisscrossing a country with the world's third-largest proven oil reserves.
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The move focused attention on slack demand for the 544-seat double-decker and raised the prospect that some could be headed for the breakup yard, casting a pall over celebrations to mark the airliner's 10 years of service in October.
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They focused attention on the literary establishment's ongoing habit of ignoring black writers, and pointed to the need to support another distinguished black author who had been denied commensurate honors: Toni Morrison, whose Beloved had recently lost the National Book Award.
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In the two weeks since the island was hit, Trump has repeatedly focused attention on Puerto Rico's long-term financial woes and criticized its officials in an attempt to deflect criticism of his administration's flat-footed response to the disaster.
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And recent events have focused attention on the social media platforms' policing their own domains, benignly or otherwise, including their manipulation by Russian hackers and bots, their willingness to accommodate repressive regimes' desires to spy on users' emails, and so forth.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A commuter train crash at a busy New York City terminal on Wednesday morning was the latest of several accidents that have focused attention on how rail agencies monitor the health of their operators, especially sleep disorders.
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LONDON, Jan 11 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A group of Irish homeless people on Wednesday defied a High Court order to vacate an unused office building in central Dublin in a standoff that has focused attention on the country's growing homelessness crisis.
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The deaths on Saturday focused attention on the dangerous central Mediterranean crossing between Libya and Italy, where most of those deaths took place, and prompted calls from the United Nations migration agency for a comprehensive policy to address the humanitarian crisis.
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Japan, now in the heat of preparations for the summer Olympics and trying to avoid an outbreak there, has focused attention on the Diamond Princess, a cruise ship that has been docked in its port city of Yokohama since last week.
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While Italy's deputy prime minister and interior minister, Matteo Salvini, has focused attention on the arrival by sea of mostly sub-Saharan African migrants on the southern coast, larger—though still modest—numbers have been entering the country from the other end.
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WELLINGTON (Reuters) - Thousands of people held candlelight vigils in New Zealand on Wednesday to mourn a 22-year-old British woman who was killed while she was on a backpacking tour, as the national outpouring of grief focused attention on violence against women.
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Recent statements on the campaign trail, and barbed accusations by both candidates about their opponent's ability to handle classified information, have focused attention on the intelligence briefings and raised questions about how much, or how little, the spies will share with the candidates.
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But on Friday, a day after a fatal train crash in Hoboken focused attention on the troubled conditions of the state-run railroad, Mr. Christie, a Republican, finally gave way by accepting the first tax increase during his seven years in office.
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Saudi officials have denied accusations that the prince ordered the murder, which has left the kingdom facing its worst political crisis in generations, strained ties with Western allies and focused attention on the prince's domestic crackdown on dissent and the war in Yemen.
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Mr. O'Brien's ouster in February 2018 came at a delicate moment for City Hall, as the national #MeToo movement focused attention on sexual harassment, and Mr. de Blasio at the time struggled to answer questions about how his administration handled harassment complaints.
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Thursday's accident at the Kamoto Copper Company (KCC) concession near Democratic Republic of Congo's southern border with Zambia has focused attention on the dangers run by informal miners, who burrow dozens of meters below ground in search of ore using rudimentary tools.
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What you'll see is that, with one passing exception, all add up to more Pentagon cash and ignore what has been called one of the greatest national security threats — the national debt: The Budget Control Act of 2011 focused attention on runaway deficit spending.
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Noura in her own words: Teen who killed rapist husband shares her story The recent case of Sudanese teenager Noura Hussein, sentenced to death earlier this year for killing her husband as he tried to rape her, has focused attention on child marriage in Sudan.
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This year, they made it a staple on Fridays, which means it was in place before San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick focused attention on a nationwide debate when he declined to stand for the national anthem before an N.F.L. exhibition game in August.
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Those images of Sergeant Blake seemingly trying to plant a knife on Mr. Santana before thinking better of it are at the center of an intense investigation that has also focused attention on red flags that Sergeant Blake's off-duty conduct had already raised.
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The steady stream of revelations about Caracol's sudden release, and the scale of his operations, have focused attention on the cocaine industry's deep penetration of the country's institutions, fuelling the sense that the country is slipping quietly but surely towards becoming a narco state.
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" Addressing the council before Ms. Haley spoke, Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights, also focused attention on abuses by member countries, expressing concern at "the brazen absence of shame being paraded by a growing number of politicians worldwide.
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The recent announcement of the impending engagement of Princess Mako, 25, the emperor's oldest granddaughter, focused attention on the flaws in the current law, which not only prohibits women from ruling, but also stipulates that succession pass only through the men of the royal family.
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The medieval painter Ambrogio Lorenzetti "focused attention" on the evils of bad government; Caravaggio showed us cardsharps and torturers; Goya made heart-rending prints of the evils of war — and none of them ever thought that such ills would end once they'd revealed them.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The most devastating floods to hit South Asia in a decade have killed more than 1,400 people and focused attention on the poor planning and lack of preparedness for annual monsoon rains, as authorities struggle to get aid to millions of destitute.
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President Donald Trump has said little about Africa since taking office but the killing of four US soldiers during an ambush by ISIS affiliated fighters in Niger earlier this month has focused attention on Washington's expanded military presence and counter-terrorism operations against militants in Africa.
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DOHA (Reuters) - The death of an Indian laborer in Qatar who had complained about not being paid and later committed suicide on a building site has focused attention on migrant workers struggling amid an economic downturn in the Gulf state ahead of the 2022 World Cup.
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An episode of "Grey's Anatomy" that focused attention on sexual assault and how to seek help is linked to a large jump in internet and Twitter searches on the topic and — even more importantly — greater call volume to a help hotline, per a study out Monday.
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The outcry over the murder has tarnished the reputation of Prince Mohammed, strained ties with Western allies and focused attention on Saudi Arabia's domestic crackdown on dissent and the war in Yemen, where a Saudi-led and U.S.-backed coalition is supporting the internationally-recognized government.
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The brokerage firm noted that in a working paper that he co-authored last year Mohan stated that achieving 8-9 percent economic growth would need the maintenance of appropriate rates, a realistic and competitive real exchange rate and a focused attention on removing land and labor related impediments.
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WASHINGTON — As the Trump administration continues to deal with the fallout of the president's conflicting statements this week about Russian electoral interference, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday focused attention on another issue involving Russia, saying that the United States hoped to advance religious freedom in that country.
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Two recent incidents in New York have also drawn negative attention to Uber — a driver was charged in October with kidnapping a female passenger and another driver killed himself in September, part of a series of driver suicides that have focused attention on the economic despair in the industry.
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"I think with the Democrats now in control of the House it is much more likely we will have focused attention on pulling congressional powers away from the White House into the Congress," said Senator Tim Kaine, Democrat of Virginia, who repeatedly pushed to repeal and replace the Sept.
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But with Britain still bitterly divided over the merits of Brexit, the House of Lords has focused attention on political weak spots in Brexit plans, particularly over moves to abandon a customs union with the European Union, an issue so contentious that it has divided and paralyzed the cabinet.
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It was a horrific story that focused attention on the bizarre cause, the tragic outcome and the somewhat unusual route the family took to establish a home in Hunts Point, where the city maintained a so-called cluster site: several apartments reserved for the homeless in a private building.
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As Niall Stanage writes, Pelosi's comments during an interview with The Washington Post Magazine focused attention on a decision progressive lawmakers must make about whether to draw up a constitutional case of high crimes and misdemeanors against Trump, even if the GOP-controlled Senate never convened a trial (The Hill).
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Now the killing of the Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi by Saudi agents has focused attention on their roles as enablers of the crown prince's impulsiveness and aggression, and Saudi watchers consider the men's fate a bellwether of the royal court's direction as it grapples with the international outrage over the killing.
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Mr. Liu's Nobel Prize — in recognition of "his long and nonviolent struggle for fundamental human rights in China" — focused attention on his fate, but over the years he was sidelined if not forgotten by the pragmatic needs of countries that felt no choice but to work with China, not criticize it.
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Last weekend's extraordinary marathon performances — 1 hour 59 minutes 40 seconds by Eliud Kipchoge in Vienna and 2:14:04 by Brigid Kosgei in Chicago — have focused attention on an already simmering question: Does the International Association of Athletics Federations need a more stringent rule to define legal running shoes?
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Elizabeth WarrenElizabeth Ann WarrenTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Eight Democratic presidential hopefuls to appear in CNN climate town hall In shift, top CEOs say shareholder value not top goal MORE (D-Mass.) focused attention on what should be the main takeaway from the hearing.
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As the world commemorated D-Day on Thursday in France, a training accident that killed at least one West Point cadet and injured 19 others and two soldiers focused attention on the US Military Academy, which most Americans might know little about but which has had an outsized influence on US history.
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More recently, the identification of changes in the brain discovered during autopsy of professional football players subjected to repeated blunt force head trauma has focused attention on the condition of chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or C.T.E. The death of the autopsy would have dire consequences for the advancement of medical knowledge and for society.
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The numbers skew higher for Middle East/North Africa (30%) in Germany and Asia-Pacific (52%) in the U.K. The deaths of 39 Vietnamese people in the back of a truck last month focused attention on migration from that country to the U.K. Go deeper: Why the migrant crisis is happening now
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ANCHORAGE — A deadly shooting rampage at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport this month has focused attention on the interconnection of public safety and mental illness and raised questions, especially here in Alaska, about one of the thorniest questions of psychology: how to tell if someone is delusional and dangerous, or merely delusional.
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They took the stage with fears mounting of war with Iran, with the US locked in a trade war with China and as tragic photos of a father and his 23-month-old daughter drowned in the Rio Grande after a failed attempt to cross the border focused attention on Trump's hardline immigration policy.
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But now the family of Mr. Chamberlain, who was black and mentally ill, will have its day in federal court next week in a newly charged environment, in which the Black Lives Matter movement has gained notice across the country and protests against the police have focused attention on how law enforcement conducts itself in African-American neighborhoods.
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Mr. Abdeslam had refused to break his silence after his arrest, and the trial provides the authorities with a first opportunity to bring someone to account for the attacks, which focused attention on the threat of European fighters for the Islamic State who filtered back to their home countries with the intent of committing acts of terrorism.
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Along with the recent suits involving "Happy Birthday to You" and Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land," the case has focused attention on one of the central questions in copyright: finding a balance between protecting intellectual property on behalf of private owners, and giving the public access to famous songs whose origins may be murky.
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Richard, who records two sleep shows of his own, has done rudimentary, anecdotal research and identified four pillars that make a show successful for sleeping: A calm host voice; focused attention on the listener; kindness (meaning the listener doesn't get mad at the host, because anger is apparently an arousing emotion); and generally banal content (a pillar my Bachelor podcasts fulfill with ease).
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But concern about the vulnerability of scientific information has also focused attention on a nonpartisan problem of digital-age government: Much of the scientific information so painstakingly collected over the decades, at a cost of hundreds of billions of dollars, remains held only by the government, scattered on thousands of servers in hundreds of departments where it may not be backed up and could be impossible to find.
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