Vivendi has been under pressure from shareholders to sell assets or split, and while the company has tried to refocus itself around its media divisions, which include Universal, the video game company Activision Blizzard and the film and television company Canal Plus Group, it has had difficulty selling off telecoms.
For example, it may be possible to refocus instruction around complex traits, which have a greater capacity for carrying modern understandings of genetics (as well as traditional ones) than do the simpler, single-gene traits that are used so widely in high school classrooms now (Dougherty, 2009).
AOL has been trying to refocus itself and turn around its advertising business, so reinvesting in that would have made some sense.
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Chief executive Marissa Mayer is trying to refocus the business around mobile technology.
House Republicans want to refocus the questioning around events during the election year, when, they contend, the matter was kept under wraps to avoid the political fallout and hamper Republican groups.
Democrats need to refocus domestic debate around a handful of fundamental goals on which all Americans can agree -- goals that in turn become the new basis for setting fiscal priorities and tradeoffs.
His plan is to sell some assets probably starting with MCI, WorldCom's long-distance phone business, and SkyTel, its paging unit and to refocus the company around UUNET, its Internet-backbone operation, which carries over half of America's Internet traffic.WorldCom plans to appoint a "chief restructuring officer" within three weeks, and to emerge from bankruptcy protection within a year.
Barry Diller, IAC's boss, wants to refocus his firm around its fastest-growing businesses, such as Ask.com.J. Sainsbury's share price plunged after an investment fund owned by the government of Qatar withdrew its offer to buy the British supermarket chain.
