However it is also worth noting that concern has been expressed that the learning environment in PAL can in fact lead to a decline in the quality of student learning, such that it becomes less focussed on understanding course material than succeeding through a greater awareness of assessment demands [ 13].
As I've grown older I've become less focused on show business.
-Do you think American culture will ever become less focused on status and consumerism?
He added: "I didn't cut anything out, but as I lost weight, I found I needed less food and became less focused on food.
"We lived through an enormous extended period of financial good times, and people became less focused on risks and risk management and more focused on making money," he said.
Susan Fitzpatrick San Diego, March 17 To the Editor: Jay O. Light of Harvard Business School is absolutely correct that during a long period of financial good times, "people became less focused on risk and risk management and more focused on making money".
But even as Japanese have become less focused on competition and more on their quality of life, there is deep fear and ambivalence about becoming second class to the rising power next door.
"In the last week, the discussion became less focused on the merits of any individual budget decision and much more on the consequences for the future of doing a budget entirely on extenders," said Assemblyman Richard L. Brodsky, a Westchester Democrat.
This perception has hardly been an asset to him, in an age when broadcasters have become less focused on innovative drama (in his early days Bleasdale had the great good fortune to work with bold, legendary producers such as David Rose, Michael Wearing and Peter Ansorge) and more concerned with making programmes that will sell across Middle America.
She became less focused on memorizing math formulas and started to understand the underlying concepts that make up Geometry" (Paige's Reflective Essay, 2011).
