The Conservative committee on employment was one preoccupation.
An example of differential probe use can be seen in the Distress/Interruption sub-section of Table 5, where US and German coding frequencies differed on "preoccupation with appearance".
On the other: stones, short supplies, feuds, the violence of revenge, rampant illness, an acceptance of death and an on-going preoccupation with surviving one more night - or perhaps one more week - together.
But his second term may give him an opportunity to move away from the distorting, "war on terror" preoccupations of Mali and Somalia, and focus on the broader issues - trade in particular - that he raised three years ago in Ghana.
Cheese is but one of the preoccupations on the farm.
Jean-Pierre Jouyet, the French minister for European Affairs, said that the best response to the Irish vote was "to take on board the preoccupations just expressed".
Rogers's personal correspondence, too, sheds a light on particular preoccupations.
All, though, provide a fascinating insight into Lamar's creative process, whether extending his themes or pivoting to new angles on his preoccupations.
Here, as in his memoir, "Stranger to History," and his first novel, "The Temple-Goers," he mines his own life to reflect on his preoccupations: patrimony, social stratification, the rise of India, the devolution of Pakistan.
That was illustrated at the last election, when the then Conservative Party leader, William Hague, based his programme largely on the preoccupations and prejudices of the Daily Mail's brilliant but rather weird editor, Paul Dacre, and suffered a humiliating defeat.
