Diamond made this acquisition as part of a strategy to move away from its longtime focus on selling nuts.
The chain's longtime focus on increasing or at least stabilizing sales levels in existing stores is being abandoned.
Given his longtime focus on "family values" in his campaigns and in Congress, his admission caught many allies in Washington and Indiana by surprise.
Despite a longtime focus on small cars, the company bet heavily this decade on trucks like the Tundra and sport utility vehicles like the FJ Cruiser.
The opening session of fine tailoring in sandy colors with pops of green; a tardy appearance of mohair plaid; and the modest, long-sleeved, calf-length dresses that expressed the designer's longtime focus and fashion's new direction: restraint.
"A longtime focus of Macy's holiday advertising has been to celebrate the season's spirit of generosity and good will through our ongoing 'Believe' campaign, and that is the sole message of our holiday television commercials".
Reflecting her longtime focus on Downtown and experimental dance in New York, Jowitt is also far more sympathetic than Vaill to those '60s experiments in life and art into which Robbins, happily and sometimes not so happily, plunged.
This is a longtime focus of the museum, he said, and one that "is very critical in today's world". One issue the center will examine is "who gets to decide" what merits preservation; another is the relationship between museums and host countries and other countries that possess coveted antiquities.
Mr. McCain, of Arizona, has repeatedly pointed to his longtime focus on global warming, including a fact-finding trip with other lawmakers to the thawing Arctic and his co-authorship, in 2003, of the first comprehensive legislation seeking mandatory limits on heat-trapping gases.
You might not have heard of Cindy Mi, whose longtime focus on teaching English has morphed into a $100 million startup.
