President Obama's inauguration speech, with its concentration on domestic issues, hardly suggests that such assistance would be readily forthcoming in future.
That summer, Mark Noll, a prominent evangelical historian now at the University of Notre Dame, told a journalist that "For the Health of the Nation" was "an effort to bring out of the background things that have always been there but have been overshadowed by the concentration on life issues".
The chief virtue of the book is its unblinking concentration on an issue that has seldom been treated in depth: gay men's shame about their past, their urge to wish it away.
The digital sceptics also argue that social media is an animal with a tiny attention span – ie, it is well-suited to amplifying the new, but not much good at the dogged business of complexity or gradual, patient concentration on an issue.
"Also, a lot of work with women in Egypt was hijacked by Mubarak and the concentration on women's issues is associated very much with the old regime".
Susan B. Anthony, Stanton's best and most faithful collaborator, concluded after years of working for women's rights that the concentration on one issue votes for women was the key to bringing success to the movement.
Sadly, the concentration on the fee issue has actually reduced financial aid and thus real support to poor students.
Analyzing a recruiting videotape, Professor Gerges remarked on his concentration on the Palestinian issue, on images of a terrified child shot in his father's arms and of women being beaten.
But the Catholic church seemed to stand alone among the major religions on Long Island in its concentration on the abortion issue and its directive that voters bring church teachings into the voting booth.
