But this hardly was a priority; things were working fine, José Torreblanca Prieto, a former education minister, told me.
If you've put together your own PC before, chances are you've had to dip into the BIOS to change a few things around, switch the boot priority, things like that.
When I asked why he was helping me out, he said 'character is what we do when we no one is watching.' When you have many competing demands, you focus your time and energy on high priority things that move you closer to your objectives.
Make a list of high priority things you're putting off that nevertheless must be done.
News reports from a variety of places, and my own personal report-backs from participants at yesterday's progressive organization leaders meeting at the White House, indicate that the president is signaling loudly that he will stand strong on at least some of the very highest priority things that progressives care the most about in the fiscal showdown talks.
He understood it was a priorities thing: her job at the Gap won out.
"When member states don't care, or have other priorities, things melt away".
This background may have made Paulson the right man to deal with what then seemed like the Bush Administration's biggest priorities, things like tax policy and China.
"There are higher-priority things than replacing a 10-year-old chair," said Robert Krasa, president and chief executive of Haworth Inc., an office furniture maker in Holland, Mich.
To say the least, it was disrupting and dispiriting to have something happen to me that I wasn't expecting and to have it interfere with the many other high-priority things going on in my personal and professional life.
