The pound's role in UK stock performance is something Morgan Stanley focusses on today in its note on the UK equities outlook - covered in an earlier Market Forces blog.
The research focusses on the airline industry "as a laboratory", but strongly implies that the findings could be replicated in other sectors.The paper notes that the same five institutional investors are the top five shareholders of the largest airlines in America.
"Our political system focusses on the ethnic and linguistic divide above all else".This has characterised much of the election campaign, conflated with worries about a Russian threat after Russia's annexation of Crimea earlier this year.
The BBC was even quicker in its rush to judgement: the lead item on the BBC's website earlier today was headlined "Crash focusses attention on Tupolev-154 .The Tupolev-154 .The FAtlanticays "not so fast".
Ranke typically restricts himself to the Latin and Germanic nations as the protagonists of cultural development, among whom from the 16th century on the Protestant states had increasingly assumed leadership; and just as typically, he focusses on political history; i.e., the foreign relations of states and their systems of government and administration.
To this end, comedy focusses on peculiarities that are not indissolubly bound up with the individuality of a single person.
According to the opposite view, aesthetic interest, because it focusses on an object for its own sake, can involve no interest in "affect".
Featuring stock characters such as the noble hero, the long-suffering heroine, and the cold-blooded villain, the melodrama focusses not on character development but on sensational incidents and spectacular staging.
The money model focusses on the supply of and demand for money.
Although the article focusses on Western aesthetic thought and its development, it surveys some of the seminal features of Marxist and Eastern aesthetics.
Shrine Shintō, Japanese Jinja Shintō, form of the Shintō religion of Japan that focusses on worship in public shrines, in contrast to folk and sectarian practices (see Kyōha Shintō); the successor to State Shintō, the nationalistic cult disbanded by decree of the Allied occupation forces at the end of World War II and subsequently in the Japanese constitution.
