But every escape contains its own confinement, and the escape from obscurity to a global reputation has brought unwanted attention and preoccupying commitments to the business of bookselling.
Missing goalscoring opportunities is, I feel, less preoccupying for a striker than not being in the position to miss them in the first place.
That question has been preoccupying plenty of funds that got burned on their real-estate investments during the crisis.
In her view their control of energy generation, transmission and distribution is the chief impediment to competition.Energy is again preoccupying Europe.
Indeed, with Kurodanomics now dominating Abenomics, the question preoccupying markets is how soon and how dramatically the BOJ will increase its QE.
With no overarching issue preoccupying voters still awakening from their summer slumber and with four by-elections set for September, which a general election would pre-empt, Mr Harper presumably has strong reasons for wanting to face the electorate a year before the set date of October 19th 2009.
Some firms may also choose to treat the switch to the euro as an opportunity to gain a strategic edge over competitors, meaning they do more than the minimum required.Such flexibility makes the switch to the euro quite unlike the other big challenge preoccupying IT departments, the millennium bug.
Libertarians believe that most issues now preoccupying federal lawmakers, such as drugs and abortion, are beyond the scope of the federal government's legislative authority.Libertarians decry protectionism, inefficient bureaucracy and inexplicable tax schemes.
Long before an islet submerges, it will become uninhabitable as inland waters become brackish and sea-defences fail.So the legal implications of sinking islands are preoccupying environmental lawyers.
The dramatic change in Europe's demographic profile will weigh far more heavily on the continent's future than the institutional minutiae that have been preoccupying the conventioneers.Fertility rates across Europe are now so low that the continent's population is likely to drop markedly over the next 50 years.
Moreover, France has the second-highest birth rate in the European Union, sparing it some of the demographic worries preoccupying countries such as Britain, Germany and Italy.Change need not mean trampling on values that the French cherish.
