And while he may have the best job in the state, he has a scant six months left in office, during which time the spotlight will be focused on a fiercely competitive governor's race that he has no part in.
We had a cadre of fiercely loyal, dedicated and highly skilled engineers intensely focused on one mission.
But for those who are fiercely focused on the process, it often requires the discipline to isolate one's self from annoying others and concentrate on the matter at hand.
That is fine for a company focused on incremental improvements and fiercely disciplined execution.
But with the White House fiercely focused on terrorism and Iraq, the two neighbors do not talk much about anything these days.
He has dismissed the treacherous winds as no more than another challenge and is so fiercely focused on Sunday's final that the only threat to his equilibrium is the unlikely prospect of his looking past the match he needs to win in order to get his hands on the trophy for a sixth time.
Through the simple fact of having a sense of humour, Matteo Garrone's wonderful Tale of Tales is closer to the second model, but where a Pixar film is fiercely focused on its younger audience with continuous flicks of discreet sophistication for older consumers, Tale of Tales is for adults, with a perpetual undercurrent of childlike reverence for the bizarre events unfolding on screen.
And all the while, aides said, Mr. McGreevey has been fiercely focused on, among other things, the creation of the state's new stem-cell research institute, security measures for the Republican National Convention next week, plans to preserve the Highlands region and a task force to study a constitutional convention on overhauling the state's property tax system.
In practice, he said, they are just like their Western counterparts — fiercely competitive, and focused on profit.
