But if the officials focus on the number of players in any one market, the companies may have a far harder time of it.

But while other states sought to recruit new industries, officials here focused instead on what Michigan had always done best: making things.

Only then, he said, would officials focus on how to pay for the work.

But former and current American officials were focusing today on the personal and the positive.

But they said they found no evidence that Soviet officials had yet focused on these problems.

American officials familiar with the plans said Moscow was serious and focused.

It is too early to predict whether the final tally approaches the 2,000 figure on which city officials have long focused.

With the enlarged boundary and name change, officials focused their attention on obtaining national park status.

The municipal officials focused their attention at the municipality public market as the center of commerce.

"Of all the issues elected officials could be focusing on, why this?"