All of its efforts with drones and robots have been focused on cutting that delivery time and getting you what you want as soon as you want it.
"We have been focused on cutting down the number of infections for some time now," she said.
In this era of sequestration, policymakers have been focused on cutting budgets and slashing programs, rather than making the investments that will help our next generation compete in the global economy.
The Obama administration is focusing on cutting methane emissions as part of its Climate Action Plan.
Competition from new private airlines like Kingfisher and Jet Airways is luring away customers, and the company is focusing on cutting costs by trimming staff and routes.
Ian Gordon, a banks analyst at Investec, said the key to improving returns was focusing on cutting costs rather than aiming for dramatic increases in revenue.
And last week, in yet another sign that Mr. Bloomberg would be focusing on cutting costs and streamlining government, he announced that he had tapped Stephen Goldsmith, a former mayor of Indianapolis, as his new deputy mayor for operations.
But ExxonMobil, Shell Oil and Chevron — giants that lead in the region — did not bother to participate at a time when they are focusing on cutting costs and are struggling to save cash to protect their dividends.
"Congress," Ms. Friedman said, "shouldn't be focusing on cutting Social Security — that's the part of the retirement system that works best — but on strengthening the private side of the system to make sure everyone has adequate and secure benefits for retirement".
Stockton's city manager, Robert Deis, is focusing on cutting retiree health benefits instead of pensions, because he said the retiree health plan was completely unfunded — as opposed to its pension being 70 percent funded — and the cost was growing at a faster rate.
