That began to change in the 1980's, when investing in general and mutual funds in particular became a popular preoccupation.
At home, at least, Mr. Sharon's role at the outset of the unrest has been obscured by the popular preoccupation with the intensity of the Palestinian resistance and by its spillover into Israeli Arab villages and towns.
Identity remains a popular preoccupation for artists from non-English-speaking backgrounds (Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz, Fawad Khan) while a good third of the works yield imagery relating to portraiture, place, language and perception.
What he focused on was both a hoary old favourite, and a newly popular preoccupation, of debates on world affairs: the rising risk of wars over fresh water, as populations increase and the world gets drier".As the global economy grows, so will its thirst...many more conflicts lie over the horizon," he said, after deploring the fact that "too often, where we need water, we find guns".
The popular preoccupation with celebrity deaths is virtually unavoidable.
The popular preoccupation with dinosaurs has ensured their appearance in literature, film, and other media.
I can add that certain food industry elements are ever at the ready to devise a new Frankenfood to exploit the acute concern du jour or popular preoccupation.
He comes close to overwhelming his characters with his own inimitable, trivia-dense voice, but ultimately he creates a tender vision of modern life, one in which preoccupations with popular culture are an imperfect carapace for the vulnerable hearts underneath.
It has been marked throughout its history by intense rivalry between the publishers and editors of the popular papers, whose major preoccupation has been to build circulations in the belief that the size of their audiences provide them with a mixture of political, social, cultural and commercial influence.
He reminds us that the skirmishing of philosophers and their ideas, the preoccupation of popular historians, is in many ways a sideshow — that the revolution that gave Europe dominance was, above all, scientific, and that the scientific revolution was, above all, an artisanal revolution.
