While the detainees have been trying to protest being held indefinitely without charges, the military is trying to keep Guantanamo guards focused on the idea that the detainees are terrorists who need to be locked up.
Soon the firm had two populations: an old guard that focused on IT systems and had strong implementation skills, and a new guard that focused on corporate strategy and had strong conceptual skills.
"The old guard is focused on Ahmed Ezz as being incredibly corrupt," said Issandr El Amrani, an independent journalist and blogger who has closely followed the connections between money, power and politics in his writing.
As the bus barreled from an arena in Oakland toward a luxury hotel in San Francisco on Saturday night, Clippers guard Patrick Beverley focused on the glowing screen of a laptop.
The Clippers were mired in a six-game losing streak entering a game against the Phoenix Suns, their longest since a nine-game skid in November 2010, an ugly stretch that had the guard focusing more on the future than the past.
As suspicions rose to panic and collective paranoia on the Monday, both the Trained Bands and the Coldstream Guards focused less on fire fighting and more on rounding up foreigners, Catholics, and any odd-looking people, and arresting them or rescuing them from mobs, or both together.
People who are low in agreeableness tend to be skeptical and not easily duped, they're more guarded, more focused on their own challenges, more vocal about what they disagree with, and more competitive, Friesen said.
A hall full of park exhibits and park rangers from America, Africa and Russia, along with a rainbow of indigenous peoples, scientists and environmentalists from across the globe — some 6,000 — focused on one goal: guarding and expanding protected areas, which are the most powerful tools we have to restrain the environmental black elephants.
(e) To better visualize BiFC signal, the guard cell was focused on the bulgy opening side.
And the security guards were too focused on Mr. West's performance, which began with a video montage of snarling and snapping attack dogs, to intervene.
