Cyclicality and permutation have been longtime preoccupations for Mr. Iyer.
"If I ask for a price increase, they will say, 'Either you have to accept the current situation, or we will take our business elsewhere".' Rising crude oil prices have become a preoccupation for many companies in China, which relies far more heavily on energy-intensive manufacturing than wealthy industrialized nations do.
The truth: Love and desire have been a preoccupation for men throughout generations, inciting the great thinkers to probe into the recesses of these passions in hope to better understand their true nature.
Updike's latest novel knits together preoccupations that have been with him for some 50 years -- sex, death, religion -- as an American high school boy, half-Irish, half-Egyptian, is intoxicated by Islamic radicalism.
And the two preoccupations have been his living for the past four decades.
GAS has become a preoccupation for many people who own second homes in the region, a large number of whom live in New York City.
Preoccupations have migrated from salvation to psychic security to success.
Gelon did indeed have his own preoccupations.
Although the work of the Policy Counterterrorism Evaluation Group has been a preoccupation for many opponents of the Bush Administration, Feith's work in Special Plans had far more significance.
A11 EDUCATION Pressure at an Early Age Higher education has become a preoccupation for children even before they reach puberty, with many sixth graders driven to excel by parents who had seized on test scores and early college readiness as new benchmarks for success.
