Too many were never used, she learned, and when she sent a questionnaire to the staff asking why, she was told that "they did not have time, did not want to take on additional teaching requirements, needed to focus on insuring that their kids passed the mandated state tests," she says.
Although the monolines did maintain their narrow focus on insuring credit risks, their foray into RMBS and CDOs proved costly to their stature as strong guarantors.
He had helped found an association, called "100% Made in Italy," that focussed on insuring proper labor practices, but his rhetoric was unmistakably nativist.
Bond insurers like FGIC used to focus solely on insuring municipal issues, but since 2003 have jumped enthusiastically into insuring structured products like collateralized debt obligations.
The Globe, buttressed by sources close to Weld, took this to mean that he would focus exclusively on insuring that Trump would not be President.
For two decades, Simmons's work has focussed not only on insuring the legality of a sale but also on reminding buyers of the world of art and luxury these pieces once inhabited.
He learned to focus on diagnosis — insuring nothing was missed, especially an illness with an actual, effective treatment.
What Calipari has done is turn his basketball program into a place that, like a law, business, dental, or other professional school, is focussed on insuring that each of its students moves on to successful, satisfying careers.
His frankly mercenary tone matches that of another college-hoops bête noire, Kentucky coach John Calipari, who has built a basketball program that, as Reeves Wiedeman has noted, ignores graduation rates and academic excellence and instead is "focussed on insuring that each of its students moves on to successful, satisfying careers".
In contrast with other tissues, the evolution of the glycolytic pathway in spermatogenic cells is focused on insuring the production of high levels of ATP in the sperm flagellum.
"Or is that ultimately going to leave too many kids behind?" "Should the focus be on insuring that every single school is as good as it can be so that families don't have to worry about choice and compete with each other?" he mused.
