The Chinese call them ken lao zu, or "the generation that eats the old", and the Japanese have a term scolding them for not giving undivided attention to anything: nagara-zoku, "the people who are always doing two things at once".
Here, the providers were not providing undivided allegiance to their patients, but, as a critical colleague observed, were "dancing to the piper's tune" [ 46].
Sad to say, that attention isn't quite undivided.
"Obviously if you're representing a buyer and a seller in a transaction," said Neil B. Garfinkel, the residential counsel to the Real Estate Board of New York, "you can't have undivided loyalty".
At AbsolutePunk, Jack Appleby said "Instead of pursuing all things epic or intentionally moving to a specific sound, the band had a blast pursuing every genre under the sun, creating a damn good album in the process...Chances are you won't dedicate undivided attention to Paramore, but you'll regularly queue the whole record".
Even if you can't devote undivided parental attention to a child, having many siblings means your children will always have playmates to keep them occupied and to help each other through the trying emotional times when they don't always turn to their parents.
If something doesn't deserve your undivided attention, maybe it's not worth doing at all.
It provided not only for undivided inheritance but also forbade partition by will and even the sale of the farm or its encumbrance by mortgage.
With music by Frank Wildhorn and book and lyrics by Leslie Bricusse, this production has the distinction of not requiring your undivided attention, since it keeps saying the same things, with the slightest variations, over and over again.
The beauty of the ordinary telephone is that you can doodle, clean your office or even fix dinner while you're chatting, without the caller suspecting that you're not providing your undivided attention.
