In fact, if you have to choose the primary breeding ground for the various business misdeeds now consuming national attention, New York, I'm afraid, is the place.
A few seats away, a race had broken out between Ivan Chen, 9, and Simon Shen, 11, consuming the attention of the crowd.
The move has spawned fresh conflict in a government that has held power for only two months, consuming its attention in the midst of pressing economic, food and energy concerns.
But with other priorities now consuming the attention of Trump's transition team, Cubans in south Florida wonder if the president-elect really intends to deliver on the pledges he has made to rein in Obama's new accord.
With immigration policy and the violent Mexican drug wars consuming the attention of policy makers, the cartoonish confrontation of north and south in the ring has found an eager audience in California, home to 37percentt of the nearly 12 million Mexicans estimated by the nonprofit Migration Policy Institute to be living in the United States.
A new era of regulation is consuming directors' attention, focusing them on issues of governance and the accuracy of the next earnings announcement rather than helping companies to build sustainable value.
As would be expected in an overwhelmed medical system, these patients were consuming the attention of their caregivers to the exclusion of non-critical patients.
This is a further indication that the IVF process is so consuming of attention and energies that many aspects of the decisions taken did not occur to patients until after the cycle had been completed.
She complains about the backlog, but everything needs her diligent time-consuming attention.
