Although healthcare quality and patient safety have longstanding international attention, the target of reducing diagnostic errors has only recently gained prominence, even though numerous patients, families and professional caregivers have suffered from diagnostic mishaps for a long time.
The play exemplified San Antonio's longstanding opportunism and attention to detail, but it also provided a window into the way the Spurs returned to the N.B.A. finals after a six-year absence.
In the past week, two books released in Mexico drew new attention to longstanding questions about whether Benedict, when he was the head of the Vatican's doctrinal office, acted decisively enough about the Rev. Marcial Maciel Degollado, a Mexican priest who founded the Legionaries of Christ, once victims began coming forward claiming that he had abused them.
What he may not have expected was that Mrs. Gibbons, 54, would file her own 33-page motion to draw attention to longstanding rumors: that she believes the governor is having an extramarital relationship with the wife of a Reno podiatrist.
Re "Some Schools Grow and Suffer as System Favors the Small," by Samuel G. Freedman (On Education, Nov. 10): Overcrowding in our schools is a longstanding challenge that deserves attention, but the fundamental issue is that New York City lacks sufficient high-quality educational options.
But that's done little to curb backlash against greyhound racing, as this discovery and a number of similar recent reports from Australia have refocused national and international attention on longstanding critiques of brutality and mass culls in the industry.
As the economy recovered and the city found its yearly deficits gradually shrinking, Santana turned his attention to other longstanding problems: the proliferation of garbage on city streets, the longstanding backlog in sidewalk repairs and the need to address a growing homelessness crisis.
Transportation experts said the stimulus was drawing attention to a longstanding trend.
Community groups applauded the announcement, saying they hoped it heralded an era of new attention to a longstanding problem.
But it's only this year — not, for instance, last year, when the group named "Inside Llewyn Davis" Best Picture — that the results yielded such high-volume handwringing and brought attention to the longstanding rules that yielded them.
