Mr. Mengestu's first novel, "The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears," focuses on an Ethiopian shopkeeper, living in isolation in a gentrifying neighborhood in Washington, who develops a tentative bond with a professor of American history, a white woman, and her precocious biracial daughter.
That bears focusing on – they're selling more stuff but they're making less money.
Bulls point to the dramatic turnaround in the Nasdaq from the depths reached in May, while bears focus on the bursting of the Internet bubble.
Where the Bears Are focuses on a group of husky, hairy sleuths living in Palm Springs; Husbands revolves around a newly out sports jock and a fey tabloid star who marry on a whim; Hunting Season is a sexually frank show about a 20-something gay man exploring the sexscape of New York; and The Outs is about two ex-boyfriends coming to terms with post-breakup life in Brooklyn.
It was so terrible, I couldn't bear to focus on any one thing.
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Bryan Peterson, head of Bear Smart Durango, a nonprofit that focuses on bear issues, says he didn't think when he founded the organization over a decade ago that he'd still be pushing for change a decade later.
The bears focus on the depressed housing market as a leading indicator of a double-dip recession in the wings.
Based at the University of Fort Hare, the institute that bears Mr. Mandela's name focuses on community development and education as deeply interrelated concerns.
The bears will focus on the lack of order book growth (and the associated revenue downgrade).
The Build-A-Bear ads focused on milk, but "there was a concern because it had a push to the retail outlet," said Marguerite Copel, spokeswoman for Dean Foods, by far the largest American milk producer.
