One would think the Nets would be the team looking ahead, obsessed with the postseason, but the Knicks might have been the ones with improper focus Friday night.
So lawmakers have now decided to claim one anyway, insisting recently that the improper focus on conservative groups could not possibly be the result of misguided employees in the Cincinnati I.R.S. office.
Dr. Patricia Dillon, director of epidemiology and communicable diseases for Suffolk County, said that for now, health authorities were focusing on the central food distributor rather than improper handling in the restaurants as the source of the contamination.
Focusing on certain cost types may lead to improper decisions because HTs can have different effects on different cost types.
As if conscious of these omissions, Sandhu's final chapter focuses on "improper London", with four authors from different periods: Salman Rushdie, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Victor Headley (of Yardie fame) and Robert Wedderburn, the 19th-century radical.
But two associates of St. John's familiar with the N.C.A.A. investigation said Miller's presence at the meeting was another misstep for St . Johns in the course of a seven-week, often confrontational, investigation that has focused on improper contact with agents and their representatives, or "street agents".
One of the major focuses was improper gifts given to Reggie Bush.
The two regulators are focusing on a breakdown in controls and practices that allowed the improper hiring to take place, rather than the bribery aspect.
She also did not comment on the finding that she had acted unlawfully in establishing the Grevillia Unit, focusing instead on the appeal court's decision that she had not acted with any improper purpose.
By focusing on Mr. Forrester's business activities early in the campaign, Mr. Torricelli can deflect attention from questions about his own ethics: whether he took improper gifts from a contributor in exchange for political favors.
