Mimi Ito, a cultural anthropologist researching technology use at the University of California, Irvine, explains that while email and desktop correspondence tends to be focused on completing a set task, a great deal of mobile communication -- given how frequently we have our hands on our phones -- is about sharing an "ambient state of being".
But we were focused on completing the arrangements necessary for full devolution.
When Mr. Danto met Arakawa and Ms. Gins, they were focused on completing 83 large canvases called "The Mechanism of Meaning".
In response to a request for comment for this article, Travis Considine, a Dewhurst spokesman, said the lieutenant governor was focused on completing the current special session.
Mr. Sumita said power companies, which were focused on completing the construction of a dozen reactors, resisted adopting tougher standards, and did not send representatives to meetings on the subject at the Nuclear Safety Commission.
At the start of the summer, Ryu was focused on completing work on her physical education degree at Yonsei University in South Korea in time to enter the L.P.G.A. Tour qualifying school at the end of the year.
In the meantime, Horizen is focused on completing its Vu Hotel, inside a 17-story converted former printing plant at 11th Avenue and West 48th Street, to be run by the Kimpton hotel chain with rates starting at $400 a night, Mr. Yanko said.
City officials and a city Super Bowl host committee said they were focused on completing the final touches for the celebration — building stages, planning parties, redirecting traffic from blocked-off streets — and were not particularly fixated on the questions hanging over the Statehouse.
